Bars
Bars noun - Gymnastic apparatus consisting of two parallel wooden rods supported on uprights.
Gates
Gates noun - United States computer entrepreneur whose software company made him the youngest multi-billionaire in the history of the United States (born in 1955).
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Corridors are tiled and some individual flats have steel security gates (the new private residential buildings have none, unless you install one yourself), as a result coming home to a Hong Kong flat is like the opening sequence of Porridge: echoing footfalls, jingling keys and clanging metal bars.
Source: Useful Notes / Hong Kong -
As a matter of fact, early editions of Dungeons & Dragons featured specific "Open Doors" and in the case of AD&D also "Bend Bars/Lift Gates" values derived from a character's strength attribute just to make clear what their exact chances of successfully enacting this exact trope were.
Source: "Open!" Says Me
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