Wiktionary
alt. (context idiomatic transitive English) To refuse to consider, remember, accept, or engage in. vb. (context idiomatic transitive English) To refuse to consider, remember, accept, or engage in.
Usage examples of "shut the door on".
As long therefore as it is acknowledged that even a few women may be fit for these duties, the laws which shut the door on those exceptions cannot be justified by any opinion which can be held respecting the capacities of women in general.
He failed, in his humiliation, to notice the difference in build between the driver who had brought him and the one who shut the door on him as he sat in the rear of the car.
Gavril crossed the threshold, and another priest in dark robe and cowl hastily shut the door on his heels.
When he'd started up the iron staircase I told Ignatov to get into his car on the passenger's side and then I took his scarf and tied his wrists to his ankles and shut the door on him and went round to the driver's side.
Then Asmus, Hans and Pluto climbed back into the boxcar and turned out all who did not belong there and shut the door on the far side.
Somewhere you can always return to and shut the door on the rest of the world.