Communication
leave the door open
keep a possibility available
To leave the door open is to keep a future choice or possibility available.
Hear it in real life
Are you refusing the offer completely?
No, I want to leave the door open.
We decided to leave the door open for a partnership later.
The mistake everyone makes
Not: We left the door open about future talks.
Say: We left the door open for future talks.
Use the fixed pattern leave the door open for when naming a possibility or future action.
Build it
How it fits in a sentence.
leave the door open for something; keep the door open
Your turn: say it out loud
We decided to leave the door open for a partnership later.
Say it out loud two or three times, until it feels like yours.
leave the door open
keep a possibility available
“We decided to leave the door open for a partnership later.”
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