"make a better door than a window" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "makes a better door than a window",
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    {
      "form": "making a better door than a window",
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    {
      "form": "made a better door than a window",
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    },
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      "form": "made a better door than a window",
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      "name": "en-verb"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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          "source": "w"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1986, Tony Ardizzone, The Evening News, page 27",
          "text": "“You're blocking the picture,” Maria says. . . . “You make a better door than a window.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1996 February 20, Francis X. Clines, “Judgments On Politics, Primaries, Pancakes”, in New York Times, retrieved 2015-07-18",
          "text": "She griped fetchingly at a clot of news workers who blocked her view. \"You make a better door than a window, kid,\" she told one reporter.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014 November 5, Jack Lakey, “Advertising poster blocks drivers' view”, in Toronto Star, Canada, retrieved 2015-07-18",
          "text": "An advertising poster on a transit shelter makes a better door than a window, when trying to spot oncoming traffic.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To obstruct someone's view, especially as a result of thoughtlessness."
      ],
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        [
          "obstruct",
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          "thoughtlessness",
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        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To obstruct someone's view, especially as a result of thoughtlessness."
      ],
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      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "ton père n’est pas vitrier"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "t’es pas transparent"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "la carne de burro no es transparente"
        }
      ]
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  "word": "make a better door than a window"
}

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      "tags": [
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        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "making a better door than a window",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "made a better door than a window",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
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    },
    {
      "form": "made a better door than a window",
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        "past"
      ]
    }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1986, Tony Ardizzone, The Evening News, page 27",
          "text": "“You're blocking the picture,” Maria says. . . . “You make a better door than a window.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1996 February 20, Francis X. Clines, “Judgments On Politics, Primaries, Pancakes”, in New York Times, retrieved 2015-07-18",
          "text": "She griped fetchingly at a clot of news workers who blocked her view. \"You make a better door than a window, kid,\" she told one reporter.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014 November 5, Jack Lakey, “Advertising poster blocks drivers' view”, in Toronto Star, Canada, retrieved 2015-07-18",
          "text": "An advertising poster on a transit shelter makes a better door than a window, when trying to spot oncoming traffic.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To obstruct someone's view, especially as a result of thoughtlessness."
      ],
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          "obstruct"
        ],
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          "thoughtlessness",
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        "(idiomatic) To obstruct someone's view, especially as a result of thoughtlessness."
      ],
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    }
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      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "ton père n’est pas vitrier"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "t’es pas transparent"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "la carne de burro no es transparente"
    }
  ],
  "word": "make a better door than a window"
}