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While vacationing on the Outer Banks in NC a few weeks ago I watched a guy with a snorkel and spear walk out of the water with a beautiful door-mat founder.
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Only your door-mat Republicans who've been instructed by their ministers and clergy will dump hard-earned money for crap like this.
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While vacationing on the Outer Banks in NC a few weeks ago I watched a guy with a snorkel and spear walk out of the water with a beautiful door-mat founder.
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Mr. Holmes, I am a very stay-at-home man, and as my business came to me instead of my having to go to it, I was often weeks on end without putting my foot over the door-mat.
Sole Music 2010
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For the first time her kids actually got that freedom of expression did not include the freedom to wipe their feet on her like a door-mat.
Childhood Unbound Ron Taffel 2009
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For the first time her kids actually got that freedom of expression did not include the freedom to wipe their feet on her like a door-mat.
Childhood Unbound Ron Taffel 2009
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Once 'awakened', social survival strategies can be taken unless, of course, a person wishes to be a perennial door-mat.
Salaries in Mexico?? 2006
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A relationship that is being swept under the door-mat like an old pile of dust relevant to some by-gone day.
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The mistress of the Establishment holds no place in our memory; but, rampant on one eternal door-mat, in an eternal entry long and narrow, is a puffy pug-dog, with a personal animosity towards us, who triumphs over
Reprinted Pieces 2007
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When I set him on the door-mat in the hall, he kep me close to him by holding on to my coat-collar, and he whispers:
Going into Society 2007
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