Word Up – Door


Word up – expressions with door

a selection of useful ones

  • Get your foot in the door – take the first step in your career by entering a business with a chance of doing a lot more.
  • The door is always open – you can always come back.
  • Door-to-door – a type of salesperson who knocks on doors of people’s homes to sell them things – quite common in the 1990’s.
  • To be walked all over like a doormat – treated with no respect but many expectations.
  • To be at death’s door – the state of near death, just before dying.
  • As dead as a doornail – without any life.
  • The girl next door – a woman with positive, familiar values who is down-to-earth and approachable esp. for a romantic relationship.