close the bedroom door

close the bedroom door
   to refuse to copulate with your spouse
   The female usually does the closing, metaphorically if the spouses continue to occupy the same room:
    From the moment he had been a gubernatorial candidate she had closed the bedroom door. (Allbeury, 1980)
   The phrase is not used of a husband banished to the spare room for snoring.

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