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The final inch between out there and the closest thing to safe.
means The step or threshold at the entrance to a building, especially a house — the spot just outside the door.
from A plain compound of Old English roots: 'door' (duru, the opening you pass through) and 'step' (stæpe, a footing or stair). Both are ancient Germanic words, and English simply welded them together to name the literal step before a door. The familiar phrase 'on your doorstep' — meaning close at hand — grew naturally from this, and 'doorstep' even became a verb for confronting someone right where they live.
- loan word
- Means a thick slice of bread in British slang
- liminal zone
- Belongs to neither inside nor the street
- sales tactic
- Door-to-door selling gave us 'doorstepping' journalism
- luck ritual
- Brides once carried over thresholds to dodge evil spirits
- witness stone
- Stone steps wear hollows from centuries of feet
amazon fresh delivery — amazon's grocery service delivering to customers' front doors in 100+ us cities since 2020
milk float — uk milkman delivery system where bottles are left on doorsteps each morning, dominant from 1950s-1980s
baby moses basket abandonment — practice of leaving unwanted infants on doorsteps, notably in uk 'baby boxes' at hospitals and fire stations since 2000s