Idiom
open wide
Meaning
To open one's mouth wide, to gape.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The doctor told the child to open wide.”
“The dentist asked me to open wide so she could check my back teeth.”
“The patient was instructed to open wide, allowing the specialist to examine the inflamed tissue at the back of the throat.”
Examples
simple
“The doctor told the child to open wide.”
contextual
“The dentist asked me to open wide so she could check my back teeth.”
complex
“The patient was instructed to open wide, allowing the specialist to examine the inflamed tissue at the back of the throat.”
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