give someone the gate
授人以柄,给人做门
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- : a movable barrier, usually on hinges, closing an opening in a fence, wall, or other enclosure.
- : an opening permitting passage through an enclosure.
- : a tower, architectural setting, etc., for defending or adorning such an opening or for providing a monumental entrance to a street, park, etc.: the gates of the walled city; the palace gate.
- : any means of access or entrance: The gate to stardom is talent.
- : a mountain pass.
- : any movable barrier, as at a tollbooth or a road or railroad crossing.
- : a gateway or passageway in a passenger terminal or pier that leads to a place for boarding a train, plane, or ship.
- : a sliding barrier for regulating the passage of water, steam, or the like, as in a dam or pipe; valve.
- : Skiing. an obstacle in a slalom race, consisting of two upright poles anchored in the snow a certain distance apart.the opening between these poles, through which a competitor in a slalom race must ski.
- : the total number of persons who pay for admission to an athletic contest, a performance, an exhibition, etc.
- : the total receipts from such admissions.
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Healthe concedes its entry gate may not be as critical as its 222 nm products focused on air decontamination, but says it a valuable part of its layered approach to disinfection.
One of the first major tech companies out of the gate with a questionably useful product is LG.
FinFET maintained fine control of current by surrounding the channel with a gate on three sides.
A transistor is “on” when the gate allows current to flow, and it’s off when no current flows.
If women’s soccer became popular and could attract those kinds of gates, that would take away from the men’s professional team.
The Florida GOP senator stormed out of the gate Wednesday in the highest of dudgeons.
Said it was like speed dating because he was late after hitting every wrong gate on the lot.
They dumped his body at the gate of a black cemetery—his head and right arm were gone.
“We shoot at Sunset Gower Studios, and you can see the street through the gate,” he says.
In earlier centuries academies existed to decide what was art, while today we have gallerists and critics at the gate.
Yet he feared to meet her eyes, and was glad of a saluting sepoy who swaggered jauntily past the open gate.
At once the sepoys at the Kashmir Gate fired a volley at the nearest officers, of whom three fell dead.
First through the gate came a company of Korean foot-soldiers, in blue uniforms.
Bride and bridegroom, accompanied by the weeping crowd, proceeded to the castle gate.
A rough track led to the gate, and Frank knocked loudly on an iron-studded door.