stand in the gate | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic,dated)To occupy a place or position of advantage, power, or defence.1892,Robert Louis Stevenson,Catriona, London; Edinburgh:Thomas Nelson & Sons,→OCLC:"What brings you to my poor door?" she cried, speaking high through her nose. "I cannot bar it. The males of my house are dead and buried; I have neither son nor husband tostand in the gatefor me; any beggar can pluck me by the baird[2]—and a baird there is, and that's the worst of it yet!" she added partly to herself.

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