front door

noun

the main entrance to a house or other building, usually facing a street.
Informal. anything offering the best, most direct, or most straightforward approach to a place, situation, objective, etc.

front door

the main entrance to a house
an open legitimate means of obtaining a job, position, etc
to get in by the front door

First recorded in 1740–50

Black smoke rolled through the front door and the entire structure was gone to Hell in minutes.

When Singh finally showed up at the front door of his home in Amritsar, his family was overwhelmed with relief.

Pulcini had locked the front door of the convent, but now he found it open.

When I returned to the rooming house in the late afternoon, I found a handwritten note pinned to the front door.

She snatched her purse from the kitchen counter and stormed out the front door, past his duffel bags.

Then they all passed out through the great front door to the wide old veranda.

Mr. Orgreave, having taken Clayhanger to the front door, did not return immediately into the breakfast-room.

He had found the front door open, and had followed his ring by walking in unceremoniously.

There was a small front porch, upon which a long window and the front door opened.

An hour afterwards he knocked at the front door, Anne Honeywood admitted him.

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