Examples of floodgate

• And the floodgates were lifted. 

• He did not wish many people except Mr. Sidney, who very kindly lent his soft meadow behind the floodgates, to be privy to the matter, which he rightly foresaw would take him to the autumn. 

• Mr. Sidney saw him while yet far off, and bellowed at him about pig-pounds and floodgates. 

• To breach that would open the floodgates to all the commercial embargoes.

• Nobody should say that the floodgates will be opened if the grant goes through because that will not happen.

• I do not seek to open any floodgates of compensation.

• If we make an exception in this instance, we shall open the floodgates to others.

• The sequence of events has shown how wide is the damage once the floodgates are opened.