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barn door

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barn door
n
1. the door of a barn
2. Informal a target so large that it cannot be missed
3. (Miscellaneous Technologies / Photography) Photog Television theatre an adjustable flap over the front of a studio or theatre lamp
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Noun1.barn doorbarn door - the large sliding door of a barn    
sliding door - a door that opens by sliding instead of swinging
Translations
barn door
n → Scheunentor nt; (as) big as a barn door (inf) → nicht zu verfehlen


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But Sultan had told his master what the wolf meant to do; so he laid wait for him behind the barn door, and when the wolf was busy looking out for a good fat sheep, he had a stout cudgel laid about his back, that combed his locks for him finely.
Fairy Tales by Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm View in context
They hang up the rats' tails in a row or the barn door, to show how many they have caught--dozens and dozens of them.
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Poor Clover has been a good deal troubled with her second teeth, which have made her meagre in aspect and rather fractious in temper; nor, even when she smiles, is the matter much mended, since it discloses a gap just within her lips, almost as wide as the barn door.
Tanglewood Tales by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
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