crash the gate

Idioms  

1. Gain admittance, as to a party or concert, without being invited or without paying. For example, The concert was outdoors, but heavy security prevented anyone from crashing the gate. This term originally applied to persons getting through the gate at sports events without buying tickets. By the 1920s it was extended to being an uninvited guest at other gatherings and had given rise to the noun gatecrasher for one who did so. [Early 1900s]

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Example Sentences

“But then I stopped. I said, 'Wait a minute, I'm behind a locked gate. If they crash the gate, they'll be here in just a little bit,” he said.

From Fox News • Apr. 29, 2020

Fess admitted the whole story, of how he had been refused entrance to a night club, and then had called upon a nearby policeman to help him "crash the gate."

From Time Magazine Archive

Instead of turning him down, the boss proposed a bet: if Breslin wanted to hitchhike out to Pasadena and crash the gate, all on $50 of his own, he could go ahead.

From Time Magazine Archive

Gendarmes were called out to handle 2,000 people who tried to crash the gate.

From Time Magazine Archive

In some never-never prewar world, it reveals a small-town soda jerkess who tries every trick from feigned amnesia to the long-lost-heiress act to crash the gate to money and glamor.

From Time Magazine Archive