(figuratively) One's immediate neighbourhood or locality.
From Bunhill and Bartley Green to Walbottle and Worthing, Labour & Co-operative members and campaigners have been on the doorstep this election campaign. Co-operative councillors keep it local: local power, local own…
I don’t see no cookies on my damn doorstep
(figuratively) One's immediate neighbourhood or locality.
They want to build the prison right on our doorstep; it will only be half a mile away and being that close scares me.
“Someone is going to share their thoughts and experience and you are just going to dump "I don't get it" in response IMO is like taking a shit right on someone's doorstep and looking at them weird as if to say "Aren't you going to pick that up?" No, and blocked.”
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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The area in close proximity to one's home; neighbourhood.
(literal) The door at the main entrance to a building or house, normally fronts onto a street.
Informal British adjective describing bread that has been sliced extremely thick — the kind of chunky slab that resembles a doorstep more than a conventional slice. Often used affectionately, particularly when talking about homemade loaves, old-fashioned sandwiches, or bakery bread cut to generous proportions. The implication is bulk and heartiness rather than elegant thin-cut sandwich bread.
Can’t someone like Novara doorstep the cartoonists? Ask them to justify their repping Goebbels.
“Bristol explosion: Man killed himself and his ex after ‘setting off hand grenade on her doorstep’ https://www.europesays.com/britain/29216/ The explosion in Bristol was caused by ‘a hand grenade set off by an ex’, it has been…”
“My money on II in Galway-West. If SF doesn't win DC I'd say is last outing for Boylan. Any canvassers noting surprises on the doorstep? (Aside from your candidate doing well, of course!)”
“Crikey, came home to find a Jewish rave on my doorstep. MC-cum-rapper, amplified klezmer, dancing in the streets, great bowls of fire: the works.”
“see the dad on the doorstep, I'm like”
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(UK, informal) A thick slice, especially of bread.
“From Bunhill and Bartley Green to Walbottle and Worthing, Labour & Co-operative members and campaigners have been on the doorstep this election campaign. Co-operative councillors keep it local: local power, local ownership, local wealth, and local pride. Polls open tomorrow.”
“I don’t see no cookies on my damn doorstep”
“Can’t someone like Novara doorstep the cartoonists? Ask them to justify their repping Goebbels.”
“They're very close. On the doorstep. Any day now. It's imminent. This thing is nearly done.”
“These are the people who will give him their vote when needed and these are the very people who Farage will ditch once he has gained the power that he craves,with a migrant prison on their doorstep for good measure.”
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(architecture) An outside step leading up to the door of a building, usually a home.
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