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welcome mat

noun

  1. a doormat, especially one with the word “welcome” printed on it.


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Idioms and Phrases

  1. put out the welcome mat, to extend a hearty welcome:

    The club put out the welcome mat for new members.

More idioms and phrases containing welcome mat

A friendly welcome, as in They put out the welcome mat for all new members . This expression alludes to a doormat with the word “Welcome” printed on it. [Mid-1900]
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The last thing we need is a welcome mat for people who extol criminals and terrorists.”

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He added that "the last thing we need is a welcome mat for people who extol criminals and terrorists".

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For all the claptrap over the decades about booting people out, this country’s leaders quickly realize their error and bust out the proverbial welcome mat just as quickly.

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If the so-called Ellis Island of the West — 83% Latino, with a border town’s enduring economic and family ties to Mexico — can pull up the proverbial welcome mat, any Latino-majority area can.

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“There’s not a welcome mat, it’s more like a no-trespassing mat.”

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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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