Word Usage – Is It Wrong to Say “Twisted Open the Door”?

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Example sentence:

I twisted open the door.

Some people argue that you can't twist a door. You twist a doorknob.

However, some people have used this construction.

What's the real answer? Or there isn't one?

Best Answer

The rules of a language are based on what its speakers actually say. That you can find a handful of examples is more or less meaningless in face of the millions of examples where the verb is pushed open or pulled open or yanked open or kicked open or flung open or burst open or threw open.

You twist open a jar or something with a screw-cap.

P.S. It isn't a matter of logic but of the behavior of speakers.

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