darken someone's door

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• darken someone's door — (often with neg, often implying unwelcomeness) to appear as a visitor • • • Main Entry: ↑dark * * * visit someone s home never darken my door again! …   Useful english dictionary

• darken someone's door/doors — to go to or appear at a place where you are not welcome anymore She told him to leave and to never darken her door again. [=to never go to her house/apartment again] • • • Main Entry: ↑darken darken someone s door/doors see ↑darken • • • Main En …   Useful english dictionary

• darken someone's door —    If you darken somebody s door, you come as an unwanted or unwelcome visitor.     Just get out of here and never darken my door again! …   English Idioms & idiomatic expressions

• never darken someone's door — ► never darken someone s door keep away from someone s home. Main Entry: ↑darken …   English terms dictionary

• darken\ one's\ door — • darken one s door • darken the door To appear, as in a doorway; enter someone s home or establishment. Used in negative imperative sentences especially with never and again . If you leave this house now, never darken my door again. After a son… …   Словарь американских идиом

• never darken someone's door — keep away from someone s home. → darken …   English new terms dictionary

• darken one's door — or[darken the door] To appear, as in a doorway; enter someone s home or establishment. Used in negative imperative sentences especially with never and again . * /If you leave this house now, never darken my door again./ * /After a son shamed his… …   Dictionary of American idioms

• darken one's door — or[darken the door] To appear, as in a doorway; enter someone s home or establishment. Used in negative imperative sentences especially with never and again . * /If you leave this house now, never darken my door again./ * /After a son shamed his… …   Dictionary of American idioms

• darken — ► VERB 1) make or become darker. 2) cast a shadow over; spoil. 3) become unhappy or angry. ● never darken someone s door Cf. ↑never darken someone s door …   English terms dictionary

• darken — [där′kən] vi. to become dark or darker vt. 1. to make dark or darker 2. to make blind not darken someone s door or not darken someone s doorway not come to someone s home darkener n …   English World dictionary

• darken — c. 1300, to make dark; late 14c., to become dark, from DARK (Cf. dark) + EN (Cf. en) (1). The more usual verb in M.E. was simply dark (O.E. deorcian), as it is in Chaucer and Shakespeare, and darken did not predominate until 17c. The Anglo Saxons …   Etymology dictionary