at one's door



at one's door

Also, on one's doorstep. Very nearby, as in The bus stop was practically on our doorstep, or The Mexican currency crisis is literally at our door. [Early 1900s] Also see lay at someone's door.
See also: door

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Stine-Danish, Norwegian
Ruslanroo-SLAHN (Russian)Russian, Tatar, Bashkir, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Ossetian, Cheche
Yered-Biblical Hebrew
OlÍVia-Portuguese, Slovak, Hungarian
Tova (1)-Hebrew
Paolinopow-LEE-noItalian