on (one's) doorstep Idioma

at one's doorstep

Idiom(s): at someone's doorstep AND on someone's doorstep

Theme: RESPONSIBILITY

in someone's care; as someone's responsibility.
• Why do you always have to lay your problems at my doorstep?
• I shall put this issue on someone else's doorstep.
• I don't want it on my doorstep.

on one's doorstep

at one's door|at one's doorstep|door|doorstep

adv. phr. 1. Very close; very near where you live or work. Johnny is very lucky because there's a swimming pool right at his doorstep. Mr. Green can get to work in only a few minutes because the subway is at his door. 2. See: LAY AT ONE'S DOOR.

doorstep

doorstep
see under at one's door.

on (one's) doorstep

1. Literally, alfresco one's door. I'm on your doorstep appropriate now—where are you?2. By extension, one's responsibility. That affair is on the badge commissioner's doorstep now. I consistently appoint acclaimed contractors for my aggregation because I don't appetite complaints of base architecture on my doorstep.3. Actual abutting to one's location, abnormally of an exceptionable affair that is encroaching. We acclimated to anticipate of it as a battle on the frontier, but the war is now on our doorstep. This accomplished breadth acclimated to be rural, but with aggressive development, the suburbs are on our doorstep.Learn more: doorstep, on

on your (or the) doorstep

actual near; abutting at hand. 1998 New Scientist The band-aid to Underhill's botheration was on his doorstep. Learn more: doorstep, on

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