stable door
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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She managed to open her back stable door, which had a beaded curtain, and photograph the bird which "was about 10 steps away".
From BBC ● May 2, 2024
I felt like I was kicking like a horse against the stable door: “Let me out!”
From New York Times ● Dec. 1, 2021
Back then, full-length Nasa spacewear shredded record books to tickertape before the sport's governing body banned them and belatedly bolted the stable door.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2021
I believe the dark horse has just kicked the stable door down.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 10, 2015
Carmen and Tony burst through the squeaking stable door.
From "I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919" by Lauren Tarshis
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