A flat object for wiping one’s shoes, laid on the floor immediately outside or inside the entrance to a building.
1 But her ladyship stood motionless on the door-mat , erect and cool.
2 Agamemnon's troubles commenced with the first cough of Mrs. Pilcher on the door-mat .
3 A man, whom we found posted on the door-mat , brought up the rear.
4 There she was, standing on the door-mat in the narrow passage!
5 You are selfish in the grain to be a door-mat .
6 In a moment another man stood upon the straw-woven door-mat .
7 You ARE a door-mat , and you ought to be ashamed of yourself for it.
8 An ironmonger added a scraper and an old lady ran up with a door-mat .
9 A man should be a man, and not a door-mat .
10 Then Mis' Adkins says again: 'He's nothing but a door-mat .
11 The latch clicked upward, and out of the night our pedestrian appeared upon the door-mat .
12 Perhaps they had left some door unfastened-perhapsthey had put the keys under the door-mat .
13 Back at home on the Aventine I sometimes found love letters lying on my door-mat .
14 He has just decided that the door-mat is a boat, and the tiled floor a river.
15 Miss Snell, with eyes red and tearful, stood on his door - mat when he answered the tap.
16 She dropped her disconcerted vision to the door-mat .
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