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.

Show the door — meaning and definition

verb

1 senseAn action, occurrence or state of being.

1.
ask to leave
“I was shown the door when I asked for a raise”
Broadereject

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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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for show the door come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.

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