shut the door

“I asked for their names and badge numbers. They said they didn’t have to provide that information at this time. So I told them I’d be calling my lawyer and I shut the door behind me.”

Bridgette said this announcement "shut the door in the face" of farmers who were preparing to apply.

The key is focusing on those who never put more than a toe across the threshold, instead of those who walked all the way in and shut the door behind them.

When they heard the shooting, they were inside and rushed to shut the door, but they were seen by the M23.

But Mr Bradshaw said the closure of the current SFI scheme had "slammed shut" the door for funding for thousands of farmers.