| There is hardly any place or building on this earth | | | | one nor obsolete. In fact it is still very much used. |
| where doors are not used. From houses to | | | | It means making an initial entrance into something. |
| apartments, and from barns to mini storage | | | | More commonly, it focuses on getting in by any |
| buildings, doors are used everywhere. They are | | | | mean and implies on a later advancement. The |
| used in different shapes sizes and designs. | | | | history of the phrase is quite biased as some |
| However, the purpose they serve is more or less | | | | people relate it to door salesmen who stick their |
| the same. They provide security and safety from | | | | foot in the door before you can close it on their |
| thieves, housebreakers, animals and even climatic | | | | face. Thus, they can start their conversation or |
| conditions. Even people who live in most exotic | | | | product marketing to be more exact. |
| places have doors for their unique dwellings. | | | | As dead as a door-nail: This phrase refers to a |
| Walking down a city lane, one notices different | | | | thing that is devoid of life or made useless. It is |
| kinds of doors all around such as glass panels, | | | | strange to relate this lifelessness to a door nail but |
| wooden slabs; roll up doors and many other types | | | | perhaps the nails were not used to be the same |
| as well. | | | | at the times of origin. The earliest usage of this |
| Besides houses and buildings, there is one more | | | | phrase is from the fourteenth century literature. |
| place where doors are equally used as much. Not | | | | Shakespeare also used it in King Henry, the fifth. |
| practically the door, but you can say literally the | | | | They nails used at that time were hammered and |
| 'door'. Supposedly, It's in our literature and | | | | slightly clenched after that. This was to secure |
| language. There are many phrases, old and new, | | | | the end but it made the nails unusable. |
| which use the word. Many of those phrases have | | | | Katy, Bar the door: This one does not sound so |
| gone obsolete now and many are not used as | | | | familiar as it is not much used today. This phrase |
| they should be. If you are born in an English | | | | is used as an advice to take precautions when |
| speaking country, there is a wide chance that you | | | | trouble is about to strike. In literal sense it advices |
| have heard or used one at least once in your life. | | | | to bar the doors as something bad might be |
| The origin of these phrases is traced back to | | | | standing outside. The origin is quite disputed on, |
| both England and American literature and history. | | | | but the most accurate one seems to be linked |
| The usage of most is also common in both | | | | with the Catherine Douglass story. Catherine tried |
| cultures as well. Let's take a look at some of | | | | to save the Scottish king and lost her arms while |
| these phrases and understand the meaning and | | | | barring the door with them. She is also known as |
| history behind them. | | | | Kate Barlass. |
| Foot in the door: This phrase is not a very historic | | | | |