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doorstep
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at someone's doorstep and on someone's doorstep
Fig. in someone's care; as someone's responsibility. Why do you always have to lay your problems at my doorstep? I shall put this issue on someone else's doorstep. I don't want that problem on my doorstep.

on somebody's doorstep
very near to where someone lives The great thing is we've got all the local amenities right on our doorstep.

on your doorstep also at your doorstep
very near to you Most people do not want war on their doorstep and will do everything they can to prevent it. People who live with poverty at their doorstep think about today, and not what the future will be like.


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Do you remember the woman who doorstepped Tony Blair at the hospital?
I don't know exactly how Mrs G responded to her doorstepped husband's comment that he's back home 'because of the children', but, for me at least, the words 'OK Balthy, I'll see you and your Getty oil billions in court
Lynn doorstepped her and ended up being chased down a lane by this woman, who had armed herself with an axe.
 
 
 
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