bater à porta
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Portuguese
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Literally, “to knock on the door”.
Verb
[edit]bater à porta (first-person singular present bato à porta, first-person singular preterite bati à porta, past participle batido à porta)
- (intransitive, idiomatic) to come knocking (of a bad situation: to present itself to someone) [with de (+ object) or (preceding porta) a possessive pronoun ‘for someone’]
- a tentação bateu à minha porta ― temptation came knocking (literally, “temptation knocked on my door”)
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bater, à, porta.