OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 58745

make a better door than a window

Meanings (ES + gloss)
la carne de burro no es transparente
To obstruct someone's view, especially as a result of thoughtlessness.
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.
“You're blocking the picture,” Maria says. . . . “You make a better door than a window.”
Phrases
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