closed-minded

The opposite of open-minded (DUH-uh!).

Many people are under the mistaken impression that the first person who says "You're just being closed-minded" in a debate is automatically the winner; frequently, the first person who says this has simply run out of facts.

Contrary to popular belief, it's also not always bad to be closed-minded, especially towards ideas which are easily demonstrated to be false or foolish.

I'm very open-minded about space exploration, but I'm very closed-minded about doing a space walk without a spacesuit.

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Closing the Gap

When anyone close to you falls behind in the meaning of personal growth, and continue to be blind to unhealthy habits while you’re growing. You either have to leave them or they or you have to catch up to the peer.

Damn, jacks different since I got this money, he needs to be closing the gap if he wants to be friends like we were.

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closed for maintenance

Expression used to say a girl is on her period, as most girls prefer not to have sex during their period and thus are "closed for maintenance".

Guess tonight I'm flying solo as my girlfriend is closed for maintenance...

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closely held

(BUSINESS) a closely-held corporation has all or most of its stock owned by the management of the firm. In many cases, it has no stock at all (see "going public"), in which case it is a private company.

Usually people say "private corporation" to mean any company that is unaffiliated with the government, or any company run mainly for profit. It's impossible to buck this trend, so corporations with no issues of stock, or negligible amounts of stock held by the public, are called "private companies" despite the fact that not all companies are corporations. Cargill, Inc., for example, has annual revenues of $117 billion, but no shares available for trade. On the other hand, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Ernst & Young are private companies but not a corporations. They are limited liability partnerships. The term "closely held" would not apply to them since partnerships do not issue stock.

Koch Industries is a super-sized, closely held corporation with two owners--Charles and David Koch, heirs to the oil refiner Fred Koch. Thanks to this peculiar status, magazines like Forbes are not allowed to report ANY financial statistics of the company at all (sales figures are suspiciously rounded to "$100,000,000,000.00").

Publix Super Markets (at the other end of the spectrum) is closely held--by its 125,000 employees.

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the shop is closed

When someone says their shop is closed, it means that they are no longer dtf. Commonly said immediately after orgasm.

"Let me put it in my mouth."
"No, the shop is closed."

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close the light

When you ask someone to switch off the light. Opposite to opening the light.

Honey I'm going to bed, can you close the light?

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the closing of gitmo

When Obama's decision to close Guantanamo Bay is enacted.

*Terrorist*
"Ya, I am so excited for the closing of gitmo so I can get out of here and kill innocent people just because their religion is different!"
*Terrorist #2*
"Aren't we all?"

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