doormat

• She's got too much brains and sensitivity to be happy as a doormat, and, I'm afraid, not quite enough to be the other kind of thing. —  F ;SF; - vol 097 issue 04-05 - October-November 1999
• He orders the food he needs each day by means of a note left under the doormat, and the concierge takes the food up and leaves it outside his door. —  Maigret and the Apparition - Episode 90 - Georges Simenon
• Per­haps being a doormat is better for his health No chance. —  Disordered Minds
• Andrew Davies exerts himself to render Amy Dorrit less of a doormat, as we can see when she reacts to her father's and her brother's begging letters. —  The Little Professor
• I still think she would make the most effective president of anyone today in terms of day to day governance, but she is looking more and more like a doormat, and I'm having a harder time stomaching it. —  WordPress.com News

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