at someone's door
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Prepositional phrase
- (idiomatic) Very nearby; close to someone.
- Synonym: on someone's doorstep
- 2022 May 4, Tommy Stubbington, Martin Arnold, “ECB policy tightening sends eurozone borrowing costs soaring”, in Financial Times:
- “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.
- (idiomatic) Being someone's fault or responsibility.
- 2010 June 28, Reeve Hamilton, “TribBlog: Gilbert: Staples Has "Blood on His Hands"”, in The Texas Tribune:
- “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.”
Related terms
Further reading
- “at one's door”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
Wikiwand in your browser!
Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.
Every time you click a link to Wikipedia, Wiktionary or Wikiquote in your browser's search results, it will show the modern Wikiwand interface.
Wikiwand extension is a five stars, simple, with minimum permission required to keep your browsing private, safe and transparent.
