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next door to
Idioms and Phrases
Very close to, as in The old dog was next door to death . This metaphoric expression, alluding to an adjacent house, was first recorded in 1529.Example Sentences
Former Compton Mayor Omar Bradley, who grew up next door to the Harris family, danced in Harris’ living room next to a large radio console when he was 3 or 4.
“I shudder to think what owners of the lots next door to a hypothetical owner aren’t doing,” Sharif said.
In Ankara, Siegfried became co-director of a gas mask factory, a joint Turkish-German enterprise next door to a poison gas laboratory.
It said a hall next door to the school had also been used for dining between November and mid-December.
The Watts plant has operated next door to Jordan High School for about 70 years.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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