Idiom
open invitation
Meaning
A situation or action that tempts someone to do something which would typically yield an unfavorable or illegal result.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“Leaving your front door unlocked is an open invitation to thieves.”
“Leaving your expensive laptop unattended in the library is an open invitation for someone to steal it.”
“By failing to enforce the security protocols, the manager provided an open invitation for employees to ignore the safety regulations entirely.”
Examples
simple
“Leaving your front door unlocked is an open invitation to thieves.”
contextual
“Leaving your expensive laptop unattended in the library is an open invitation for someone to steal it.”
complex
“By failing to enforce the security protocols, the manager provided an open invitation for employees to ignore the safety regulations entirely.”
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