doorstep
(architecture) An outside step leading up to the door of a building, usually a home.
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They're very close. On the doorstep. Any day now. It's imminent. This thing is nearly done.
Can’t someone like Novara doorstep the cartoonists? Ask them to justify their repping Goebbels.
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.
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
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(architecture) An outside step leading up to the door of a building, usually a home.
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(UK, informal) A thick slice, especially of bread.
“They're very close. On the doorstep. Any day now. It's imminent. This thing is nearly done.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Can’t someone like Novara doorstep the cartoonists? Ask them to justify their repping Goebbels.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“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.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“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.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“I don’t see no cookies on my damn doorstep”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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(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.
“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!)”
— Bluesky· May 2026“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.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“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…”
— Bluesky· May 2026“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.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“see the dad on the doorstep, I'm like”
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