doormat
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doormat (plural doormats)
- A coarse mat at the entrance to a house, upon which one wipes one's shoes.
- Wipe your shoes on the doormat before you start plodding around in the house.
- (figuratively) Someone who is overly submissive to others' wishes.
- He's such a doormat, he lets everyone walk all over him.
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coarse mat that appears at the entrance to a house
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Someone that is over-submissive to other's wishes
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