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Fold keyboard Posted 9 years ago
Grammar

In the door, idiom?

Hello everyone, I was trying to understand the meaning of "get someone in the door". The sentence is:

"You advertise the cheap jewelry to get the idiots in the door and then you push the expensive stuff.


Thanks for helping Emotion: big smile

  

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It means to entice potential customers to come into the jewelry store through the front door. It is not really an idiom; it means what the words say. But there is an idiom related to this.

  • It means to entice potential customers to come into the jewelry store through the front door.
  • It is not really an idiom; it means what the words say.
  • But there is an idiom related to this.
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It means to entice potential customers to come into the jewelry store through the front door. It is not really an idiom; it means what the words say. But there is an idiom related to this. This dubious sales technique is called "bait and switch."

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