Doornail Phrases

Phrases

• A golden key can open any door
• Another nail in the coffin
• As dead as a doornail
• As one door closes, another one opens
• At death's door
• Back door man
• Beat a path to your door
• Boy next door
• Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door
• Cash on the nail
• Coffin nail
• Direct to your door
• Fight tooth and nail
• Foot in the door
• For want of a nail the shoe was lost (line from nursery rhyme)
• For want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the man was lost
• Get your foot in the door
• Get your toe in the door
• Girl next door
• Hit the nail on the head
• It's no use locking the stable door after the horse has bolted
• Katy bar the door
• Keep the wolf from the door
• Key of the door (Bingo call for number twenty one)
• Knock on the door
• Knockin' On Heaven's Door (Bob Dylan song)
• Leave out door open
• Leave the door open for
• Like trying to nail jello to a wall
• Make a bolt for the door
• My door is always open
• Nail a lie
• Nail down
• Nail your colours to the mast
• On the nail
• Open door policy
• Pay on the nail
• Push at an open door
• Revolving door policy
• She bangs like the shithouse door
• Show the door
• Shut that door (A catchphrase from Larry Grayson)
• Slam the door
• Stage door Johnny
• The long and winding road that leads to your door (Beatles song lyric)
• Three, four, knock at the door (line from nursery rhyme)
• Tooth and nail
• Waits at the window, wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the door (Beatles song lyric)
• When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail