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If an action or a decision opens the floodgates, it allows something to happen a lot or allows many people to do something that was not previously allowed
--Officials are worried that allowing these refugees into the country will open the floodgates to thousands more.
--"And it is a remarkable example of the confusion into which the present age has fallen; of the obliteration of landmarks, the opening of floodgates, and the uprooting of distinctions," says Sir Leicester with stately gloom, "that I have been informed by Mr. Tulkinghorn that Mrs. Rouncewell's son has been invited to go into Parliament." Dickens Bleak House.
--Officials are worried that allowing these refugees into the country will open the floodgates to thousands more.
--"And it is a remarkable example of the confusion into which the present age has fallen; of the obliteration of landmarks, the opening of floodgates, and the uprooting of distinctions," says Sir Leicester with stately gloom, "that I have been informed by Mr. Tulkinghorn that Mrs. Rouncewell's son has been invited to go into Parliament." Dickens Bleak House.