The Japanese Maneki Neko lucky cat holds a "no more nuke" sign, signifying "bye-bye" instead of "welcome".
If it's a pile of shoes, a stack of junk mail and a collection of coats, your house might be saying "stay away" instead of "welcome".
Instead of being welcomed with open arms, I was overcharged for everything and called un americano.
Yet young voters flocking to Labour, instead of being welcomed by the party's grandees, have been told to get heart transplants.
Yet instead of being welcomed in jihadist ranks, the prospect has triggered alarm and confusion there and amongst other Islamist groups.
Instead of being welcomed with open arms, he received a call from Mr. Sculley noting that Apple had just signed an agreement to work with Sharp Electronics on the Newton technology and that there was no room at the company for competing hand-held computing projects.
So Machar fled to Ethiopia, but instead of being welcomed as a comrade, he was told to leave immediately.
But instead of being welcomed when she returned home to Gulu, many in her village rejected her.
On such a premise, when President Lincoln changed his view that freed slaves should be deported to Africa to a different view that freed slaves should instead be welcomed into the fabric of American society, he deserved to be castigated for being a big fat "liar", or almost as bad, a "flip-flopper".
Then we come to that apparent contradiction in terms, hyperacusis, where loud and therefore audible noises, like drums, instead of being welcome are truly painful.
