at someone's door

English

Prepositional phrase

at someone's door

1. (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^[1]:

     “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.

2. (idiomatic) Being someone's fault or responsibility.
   • 2010 June 28, Reeve Hamilton, “TribBlog: Gilbert: Staples Has "Blood on His Hands"”, in The Texas Tribune‎^[2]:

     “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

• at the door
• at the door of
• lay at someone's door
• lie at someone's door

 

Further reading

• “at one's door”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.