next door to

Very close to, as in The old dog was next door to death. This metaphoric expression, alluding to an adjacent house, was first recorded in 1529.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Drago	-	Croatian, Serbian, Slovene
Cyneheard	-	Anglo-Saxon
Corynn	-	English (Rare)
Claude	KLOD (French), KLAWD (English)	French, English
Eloisa	e-lo-EE-zah	Italian
Makeda	-	History