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What is a doormat?

What is a doormat? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A coarse mat at the entrance to a house, upon which one wipes one's shoes.
  2. (figuratively) Someone who is overly submissive to others' wishes.
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And we must not, under any circumstance, allow ourselves to become a doormat for the other person.
Minding one's manners is not synonymous with playing doormat and having people walk all over you.
I keep getting misaddressed post meant for downstairs plonked on my doormat.
At the threshold, the boys carefully wipe their feet, not just on the outside doormat, but on the inside one, too.
Edmundson, the 50-year-old cricket secretary returned from a family holiday in Florida to find his P45 on the doormat.
The doorway next to hers has a green doormat and a pink tricycle propped beside it.

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