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when one door closes, another opens en · X

Meanings

  1. When one opportunity is lost, another opportunity soon becomes available.
    • "When one door closes, another opens," the former Stamps president mused yesterday after being fired by the team's new ownership group. 2005 January 14, Dan Toth, “'I've had a great run': Rooke 'very emotional' after firing”, in Calgary Sun, Canada, retrieved 06 May 2013:
    • When one door closes, another opens: those eliminated in the early rounds of the Spingold Knockout in Las Vegas, Nev., in August were able to shoot for the national men's and women's Swiss team events. 1985 October 4, Alan Truscott, “Bridge: New York Area Team Finds A Silver Lining in Its Cloud”, in New York Times, retrieved 06 May 2013:
    • An excellent reason for absenting himself from school was thus denied to Master Hardy; but it has been well said that when one door closes another opens, and to his great satisfaction the old servant, who had been in poor health for some time, suddenly took to her bed and required his undivided attention. 1902, W. W. Jacobs, chapter 4, in At Sunwich Portt:

Forms

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when one door shuts, another opens alternative lexicographic
when one door closes, another one opens alternative lexicographic
when one door closes, another door opens alternative lexicographic
as one door closes, another opens alternative lexicographic

Relateds

tomorrow is another day · there are plenty more fish in the sea · hope springs eternal

Translations (3)

fi kun yksi ovi sulkeutuu, toinen avautuu (Translations) · pl kiedy jedne drzwi się zamykają, drugie się otwierają (Translations) · it quando si chiude una porta si apre un portone (Translations)