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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—D

Door-opener

(The). So Crates, the Theban, was called, because every morning he used to go round Athens and rebuke the people for their late rising.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894

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