Antonyms for barn doorbarn door

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1. • Sliding Door

Princeton's WordNet

1. barn doornoun

   the large sliding door of a barn

How to use barn door in a sentence?

1. Mary Lavorando:

   It seems like more people have been picking up applications, but it can take eight or nine weeks for approval. So it’s kind of like locking the barn door after the horse is out.

2. Michele Evermore:

   Workers are just going to see this and consider it an order and not challenge it, getting states to walk back this messaging is a little bit like closing the barn door after the horse is out. Once people have heard from the governor you have to go back to work, and then they issue on their website somewhere FAQs [ frequently asked questions ] that slightly soften that, does that reverse the initial damage ? I don't think so.

3. Jim Harrington:

   The horse went out the barn door, and now the government is trying to close the barn door.

4. Tony Fratto:

   This is something like re-opening the barn door after the horse is in the stable, love or hate Dodd-Frank, it's simply blind to say that it hasn't significantly improved safety and soundness.

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