Work & careers
open a door to something
create an opportunity
If something opens a door to something, it creates a new opportunity or possibility.
Hear it in real life
How did you get into digital marketing?
A weekend course opened a door to my first internship.
Volunteering opened a door to a job in community development.
The mistake everyone makes
Not: The course opened the door of a new career.
Say: The course opened the door to a new career.
The opportunity idiom uses “to” after “door,” not “of.”
Build it
How it fits in a sentence.
open a door to a career; open doors to opportunities
Your turn: say it out loud
Volunteering opened a door to a job in community development.
Say it out loud two or three times, until it feels like yours.
open a door to something
create an opportunity
“Volunteering opened a door to a job in community development.”
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