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Shut the door: When you go outside put the wood in the hole.
Contributor's comments: In Gippsland Vic in 1950s I often heard it as "put a block in the hole".
Contributor's comments: Have heard and used this term all my life in Melbourne.
Contributor's comments: Always referred to in Tasmania as 'shut the hole in the wall' OR in irritation "Were you born in a tent?"
Contributor's comments: I grew up in the Sydney area, and I remember my parent using the term "put the wood in the hole" or sometimes just "put wood in hole", meaning "close the door".