Shut the door

Contentment with the past, or the cold conventionality of custom, may no longer shut the door on science.

But I believe I am justified in shutting the door on this vista of argument.

[H]e pulled off his peasant clothes covered with the dust and dirt of that immediate life, washed himself, put on his "noble court dress," closed the door on the world of toiling and getting, private loving, private hating and personal regrets, sat down with a sigh of contentment to those wider dreams.

Let's shut the door on conflict.

But while Gore has not entirely shut the door on another run for President, he insists that he is "not planning" to be a candidate again.

Yet Tressel didn't slam the door on the possibility that Wells might still play in Saturday's game against Ohio University.