Meanings
- idiomaticVery nearby; close to someone.
“What we are seeing in markets is the realisation that ECB tightening is at our door,” said Rohan Khanna, a fixed-income strategist at UBS.
2022 May 4, Tommy Stubbington, Martin Arnold, “ECB policy tightening sends eurozone borrowing costs soaring”, in Financial TimesSynonyms: on someone's doorstep
- idiomaticBeing someone's fault or responsibility.
1 more example
“Absolutely those deaths are at the door of the Texas Department of Agriculture,” Gilbert spokesman Vince Leibowitz charges. “They should have noticed those problems and they should have done something about it. Clearly they didn’t and Todd Staples is the one who needs to be held accountable for it.”
2010 June 28, Reeve Hamilton, “TribBlog: Gilbert: Staples Has "Blood on His Hands"”, in The Texas Tribune
Synonyms & antonyms
prepositional phraseVery nearby; close to someone.
Cite this entry
at someone's door. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/at%20someone's%20door
“at someone's door.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/at%20someone's%20door. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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