show the door

1. 1.

   ask to leave

   “I was shown the door when I asked for a raise”

   Broadereject

Questions about show the door

What does show the door mean?

show the door means "ask to leave".

Is show the door a common word?

show the door is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.