In Mr. Hilali's spirit, a doormat outside the building bears a version of the puffy face of the Brotherly Leader and Guide of the Revolution, as Colonel Qaddafi is officially known; visitors take care to pause and wipe their feet on it.
They never cease to annoy me: not least in their appropriation of the public pavement, since they sometimes have little red-carpet areas on the terra firma, in one case shaded by a pergola, which I suppose is the equivalent of popping a doormat outside your caravan.
I put my shoes under the doormat outside my door so they wouldn't get any wetter.
Breeders from the massive farms behind all those white fences and manicured grounds in Kentucky wouldn't wipe their feet on a doormat outside the barn of an $8,000 broodmare.
Small things like putting a doormat outside the door and have extra hooks for coats and helmets can be a big help to keeping the tack room clean and tidy.
American officials in Iraq were relieved, but still wished Mr Sadr would stop using the American and Israeli national flags as doormats outside his mosque in Baghdad.And then there are the jihadis.
Tracked in dust and dirt has been identified as a source of interior lead [ 60], and the US EPA recommends the use of doormats both outside and inside to reduce tracked in lead [ 61].
Set out any entryway doormats inside or outside that have a festive Christmas theme (if any special ones are present).
Christmas is a distant memory, it's cold and wet outside, credit card bills are thudding on doormats across the country, and pay day is still more than a week off.
"I will not be a doormat," Mr. Lazio, a Suffolk County Republican, declared outside Junior's Restaurant on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn, where he had just consumed a breakfast of scrambled eggs, home fries and cheesecake.
