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Hasibul Alam Posted 4 years ago
Grammar

What is the meaning of "throws open the grate"?

The elevator shimmies to a stop on the top floor. Leslie throws open the grate and says, “Do you have any other questions?”

  

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Hasibul Alamthe grate

Old-fashioned elevators were a sort of open cagework affair, and the front of the cage was a scissors-style folding gate that slid aside to allow a passenger to open the door proper at the floor it stopped at. This writer calls it a grate, and I am not old enough to know whether they were called that or not.

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Hasibul AlamWhat is the meaning of "throws open the grate"?

suddenly pushes the elevator grate open forcefully

This is the kind of grate they're talking about:

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Hasibul AlamLeslie throws open the grate

She opened the old-fashioned elevator doors very quickly with great force.

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