Doorstep - What does it mean?
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Step of a door. The threshold of a doorway.
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=10 (figuratively) One's immediate neighbourhood or locality.
A big slice of bread.
:2003, Diana Wynne Jones, The Merlin Conspiracy", P 241 ISBN 0-06-052318-2
:"I cut myself a doorstep of bread with masses of butter and went along to see Romanov while I was eating it."
(journalism) To corner somebody for an unexpected interview.
* 1998 , Emily O'Reilly, Veronica Guerin: The Life and Death of a Crime Reporter? :
* 2006 , Denis O'Hearn, Nothing But an Unfinished Song :
doorstep
English
Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=With a little manœuvring they contrived to meet on the doorstep which was […] in a boiling stream of passers-by, hurrying business people speeding past in a flurry of fumes and dust in the bright haze.}}
Verb
- Throughout her time in journalism, she doorstepped politicians, the child of a politician, crime victims, armed robbers, murderers, suspected murderers...
- Surprisingly few people refused to talk, even those I doorstepped or telephoned out of the blue.