"get one's foot in the door" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Probably from a practice attributed to door-to-door salesmen of placing a foot in the opening of a prospective customer's door, thereby preventing the person from closing the door until the conclusion of the sales pitch.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "gets one's foot in the door",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "getting one's foot in the door",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "got one's foot in the door",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "got one's foot in the door",
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gotten one's foot in the door",
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "get<,,got,got􂀿UK􂁀:gotten􂀿US􂁀> one's foot in the door"
      },
      "expansion": "get one's foot in the door (third-person singular simple present gets one's foot in the door, present participle getting one's foot in the door, simple past got one's foot in the door, past participle (UK) got one's foot in the door or (US) gotten one's foot in the door)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Polish links with redundant wikilinks",
          "parents": [
            "Links with redundant wikilinks",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1935 February 19, “When You Let the Gamblers In”, in Milwaukee Journal, retrieved 2009-06-10, page 8",
          "text": "And the legislature had better study Texas, before it commits this state to parimutuel betting, thus letting the professional gambler get his foot in the door.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007 February 4, Sara Boyd, “A Formula for Greatness”, in Washington Post, retrieved 2009-06-10, page Y14",
          "text": "But despite his academic credentials, Julian had to fight just to get his foot in the door at most laboratories.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021 December 29, Tom Allett, “How Wilston Jackson made railway history”, in RAIL, number 947, page 52",
          "text": "He was able to gain employment as a cleaner relatively quickly. It was a 'foot in the door', but it wouldn't appease his ambition for long and he later qualified as a 'passed cleaner' (a fireman in all but name), based at King's Cross and St Pancras.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To initiate contact or a relationship; to gain access, especially to an entry-level job."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "initiate",
          "initiate"
        ],
        [
          "access",
          "access"
        ],
        [
          "entry-level",
          "entry-level"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To initiate contact or a relationship; to gain access, especially to an entry-level job."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "have one's foot in the door"
        },
        {
          "word": "have a foot in the door"
        },
        {
          "word": "foot-in-the-door technique"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "få foden indenfor"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "saada jalka oven väliin"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "ustawiać się"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "ustawić się"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "tags": [
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      "text": "Audio (AU)"
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  "word": "get one's foot in the door"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Probably from a practice attributed to door-to-door salesmen of placing a foot in the opening of a prospective customer's door, thereby preventing the person from closing the door until the conclusion of the sales pitch.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "gets one's foot in the door",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "getting one's foot in the door",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "got one's foot in the door",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "got one's foot in the door",
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gotten one's foot in the door",
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "get<,,got,got􂀿UK􂁀:gotten􂀿US􂁀> one's foot in the door"
      },
      "expansion": "get one's foot in the door (third-person singular simple present gets one's foot in the door, present participle getting one's foot in the door, simple past got one's foot in the door, past participle (UK) got one's foot in the door or (US) gotten one's foot in the door)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "have one's foot in the door"
    },
    {
      "word": "have a foot in the door"
    },
    {
      "word": "foot-in-the-door technique"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with audio links",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Polish links with redundant wikilinks",
        "Translation table header lacks gloss"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1935 February 19, “When You Let the Gamblers In”, in Milwaukee Journal, retrieved 2009-06-10, page 8",
          "text": "And the legislature had better study Texas, before it commits this state to parimutuel betting, thus letting the professional gambler get his foot in the door.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007 February 4, Sara Boyd, “A Formula for Greatness”, in Washington Post, retrieved 2009-06-10, page Y14",
          "text": "But despite his academic credentials, Julian had to fight just to get his foot in the door at most laboratories.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021 December 29, Tom Allett, “How Wilston Jackson made railway history”, in RAIL, number 947, page 52",
          "text": "He was able to gain employment as a cleaner relatively quickly. It was a 'foot in the door', but it wouldn't appease his ambition for long and he later qualified as a 'passed cleaner' (a fireman in all but name), based at King's Cross and St Pancras.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To initiate contact or a relationship; to gain access, especially to an entry-level job."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "initiate",
          "initiate"
        ],
        [
          "access",
          "access"
        ],
        [
          "entry-level",
          "entry-level"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To initiate contact or a relationship; to gain access, especially to an entry-level job."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
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      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "få foden indenfor"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "saada jalka oven väliin"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "ustawiać się"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "ustawić się"
    }
  ],
  "word": "get one's foot in the door"
}