0 a piece of thick material that is put on the floor by a door, used to clean your shoes on when you go into a building --
1 a person who accepts being treated badly and does not complain: --
He may be selfish and insensitive, but she is a doormat.
2 a piece of usually rough material outside a door to a house or apartment where people can clean their shoes before entering --
Is it not indefensible that there is no link at all between consumption and the bill that lands on the doormat?
Is £100 any compensation for what might happen to a family when a letter accusing a man of fathering a child arrives on the doormat?
He has not actually received it, but doubtless it will be sitting on his doormat when he gets home or wherever it should be.
A bill for a £15 a week increase will arrive on the doormat at the same time as the poll tax bill.
A "facility" might be a doormat or it might be a common entrance which was divided two feet inside the building.
To show a misogynist and surround him with such walking doormats has the effect, intentional or not, of justifying this behaviour.
Things are beamed into their living rooms or delivered on to their doormats, so the bonding in society that is often a precondition of voting does not take place.
As council tax bills land with a loud and disappointing thud on people's doormats, we should reflect on the failure to increase take-up of council tax benefits.