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kick at an open door
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kick
at
an
open
door
(
idiomatic
)
To carry out a
redundant
activity
.
2010
, Derk Jan Eppink,
Bonfire of bureaucracy in Europe
:
Instead of making hard choices and hard decisions, the EU prefers to
kick at an open door
. By opting for easy policies, everyone agrees — simply because there is nothing to disagree with.