"leave the door open" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "leaves the door open",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "leaving the door open",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "left the door open",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "left the door open",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "leave<,,left> the door open"
      },
      "expansion": "leave the door open (third-person singular simple present leaves the door open, present participle leaving the door open, simple past and past participle left the door open)",
      "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"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2023 July 26, Jeanna Smialek, “Fed Raises Rates After a Pause and Leaves Door Open to More”, in The New York Times",
          "text": "Federal Reserve officials raised interest rates to their highest level in 22 years and left the door open to further action as they continued their 16-month campaign to wrestle inflation lower by cooling the American economy.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 August 12, “Harry Kane joins Bayern Munich and leaves door open for Spurs return”, in The Guardian",
          "text": "Harry Kane has left the door open for a return to Tottenham after completing his £100m move to Bayern Munich.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To maintain the possibility of something happening in the future."
      ],
      "id": "en-leave_the_door_open-en-verb-zFyreQBc",
      "links": [
        [
          "for",
          "for#English"
        ],
        [
          "to",
          "to#English"
        ],
        [
          "maintain",
          "maintain"
        ],
        [
          "possibility",
          "possibility"
        ],
        [
          "happen",
          "happen"
        ],
        [
          "future",
          "future"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, often with for or to) To maintain the possibility of something happening in the future."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "with for or to"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "often"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "leave the door open"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "leaves the door open",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "leaving the door open",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "left the door open",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "left the door open",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "leave<,,left> the door open"
      },
      "expansion": "leave the door open (third-person singular simple present leaves the door open, present participle leaving the door open, simple past and past participle left the door open)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2023 July 26, Jeanna Smialek, “Fed Raises Rates After a Pause and Leaves Door Open to More”, in The New York Times",
          "text": "Federal Reserve officials raised interest rates to their highest level in 22 years and left the door open to further action as they continued their 16-month campaign to wrestle inflation lower by cooling the American economy.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 August 12, “Harry Kane joins Bayern Munich and leaves door open for Spurs return”, in The Guardian",
          "text": "Harry Kane has left the door open for a return to Tottenham after completing his £100m move to Bayern Munich.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To maintain the possibility of something happening in the future."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "for",
          "for#English"
        ],
        [
          "to",
          "to#English"
        ],
        [
          "maintain",
          "maintain"
        ],
        [
          "possibility",
          "possibility"
        ],
        [
          "happen",
          "happen"
        ],
        [
          "future",
          "future"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, often with for or to) To maintain the possibility of something happening in the future."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "with for or to"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "often"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "leave the door open"
}