on someone's doorstep
doorstep
verb
UKuk /ˈdɔː.step/ us /ˈdɔːr.step/-pp-
[ Toften passive ]disapproving
If you are doorstepped by journalists, they come to your house and ask you to speak or answer questions, even if you do not want them to: 强行上门采访
He complained about being doorstepped by the press.他对报社记者强行上门采访颇有微词。
[ I or T ]
to go to every house in a particular area selling something or asking for support挨家挨户兜售（募捐、拉选票等）

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doorstep | American Dictionary

doorstep
noun[ C ]
us/ˈdɔrˌstep, ˈdoʊr-/
a step outside the door to a building:
fig.We need to be more proactive and seek out dangers before they’re on our doorstep (= too near to be ignored).

Examples of doorstep

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All of them stressed that on sales floors, at consumers' doorsteps, in purchasing agents' offices, acting was just as necessary as on the stage.
Constituency activists mailed party literature to local voters; distributed leaflets and posters from door to door; and canvassed voters on their doorsteps.
Let me now turn to my second major group of priorities for the 1970s: those which lie on our own doorstep.
As evidenced by the negative and significant coefficient on the political information variable, response instability in ideological self-placement reflects uncertain doorstep opinions about ideology.
To some extent, this may reflect the relative visibility of doorstep as opposed to telephone canvassing.
Earlier they were up there at the cowshed there, but now he feeds them on the doorstep down here.
Studies also bear out that people are the most effective disseminators of know-how, and that hardware just dropped on the doorstep is the least effective.
We do not know which occurred first: the telephone or the doorstep canvass.
One major difference between the doorstep and telephone canvass equations, however, is in the relationships with campaign spending.
A wild midnight gallop lands her on the very doorstep of her ancestral home, and the fun and games commence.
Secondly, doorstep canvassing in particular is probably an underestimate of exposure to the local campaign.
Local campaigns have traditionally relied on local volunteers engaged on doorstep activity, therefore.
However, exposure to the telephone canvass did not have as much impact on chances of being canvassed on the doorstep.
I readily concede that it was not the first issue that was raised on the doorsteps of my new constituency.
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