wide open

Language: en

Meaning: Completelyopen.The front door waswide open.1921June, Margery Williams, “The Velveteen Rabbit: Or How Toys Become Real”, inHarper’s Bazar, volume LVI, number6 (2504 overall), New York, N.Y.: International Magazine Company,→ISSN,→OCLC:It was a bright, sunny morning, and the windows stoodwide open.; (idiomatic)Having nolawsor lawenforcement.It was awide openfrontier town before the railroad came.2001, Monroe Dodd,Christmastime in Kansas City, page85:One hundred thirty-eight sellers and buyers were jailed. Even efforts like that were to no avail in awide-opentown where rackets flourished[…]; (idiomatic)Unsettledorunresolved.The fate of the loan sailor is stillwide open.; (idiomatic)Vulnerableorunprotected.He left himselfwide opento criticism.; (sports)Without thepresenceofopponentsnearby.He waswide openand scored easily after receiving the pass.; (finance)Of thesituationat the beginning oftradingwhen there is a largespreadbetweenbidsandasking prices.

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