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crash the gate
Idioms and Phrases
Gain admittance, as to a party or concert, without being invited or without paying. For example, The concert was outdoors, but heavy security prevented anyone from crashing the gate . This term originally applied to persons getting through the gate at sports events without buying tickets. By the 1920s it was extended to being an uninvited guest at other gatherings and had given rise to the noun gatecrasher for one who did so. [Early 1900s]Example Sentences
“But then I stopped. I said, 'Wait a minute, I'm behind a locked gate. If they crash the gate, they'll be here in just a little bit,” he said.
“If people are still smart enough to crash the gate with faces on the list, they should go for it,” he said.
In some never-never prewar world, it reveals a small-town soda jerkess who tries every trick from feigned amnesia to the long-lost-heiress act to crash the gate to money and glamor.
Fess admitted the whole story, of how he had been refused entrance to a night club, and then had called upon a nearby policeman to help him "crash the gate."
Instead of turning him down, the boss proposed a bet: if Breslin wanted to hitchhike out to Pasadena and crash the gate, all on $50 of his own, he could go ahead.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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