Don't leave your manners at the doorstep
What is the meaning ? I searched through the Internet but failed.
Could you give me the meaning? If you are the native speaker, you may know it.
Thanks.
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Vincent Teo Don't leave your manners at the doorstep. = Be polite. This is used especially when you're going to visit someone else in their home.
- Vincent Teo Don't leave your manners at the doorstep.
- = Be polite.
- This is used especially when you're going to visit someone else in their home.
- CJ
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Vincent Teo Don't leave your manners at the doorstep.
= Be polite.
This is used especially when you're going to visit someone else in their home.
CJ
0It is a conflation of "at the door" and "on the doorstep", and they meant "at the door". It would be nice to have some context, because the metaphor seem inapt on its face. The idea is that when you first enter a building, you might hang up your coat and put your umbrella in the umbrella stand, for example, before going farther in. You have left those things at the door. You might figuratively
0Don't leave your manners at the doorstep. = When you come inside, don't change your good behavior.
A person who has manners is respectful and polite.
Some people have manners when they are outside with strangers or friends. But when they come inside their own house, they are not polite or respectful towards their parents or brothers and sisters.
So mother asks th
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