"over the doorstep" is a correct and usable phrase in written English
It is typically used to describe someone entering a house or building by stepping over the raised portion of the doorway. Example: As she stepped over the doorstep, a sense of nostalgia washed over her. She hadn't been back to her childhood home in years, but it still felt familiar and comforting to be back.
In fashion, Dior casts a very long shadow — and not just over the doorstep of his own house.
A rat was captured on camera running over the doorstep of the prime minister's residence.
At the very least, it gets independence campaigners over the doorstep to make their pitch to the sceptical voters who will decide the outcome.
Independence Day: that time of year when we proudly display an American flag over the doorstep, across our midriffs, and on a picnic table of baked beans and red ants.
When a deputation from the council arrived to take Mum into care, she was fought over on the doorstep.
Now let me share with you what has been, burningly and persistently, the hot topic of conversation on the doorstep over the recent tumultuous months.
Looking at the low turnout, and recalling the antipathy to all politics he had encountered on the doorstep over the past month, Miliband ordered his shadow cabinet colleagues to cut the triumphalism.
Ofgem accused it of misleading customers on the doorstep and over the phone and is making E.on repay about £12m to customers affected.
The company agreed to pay the £3.5m to vulnerable customers after an investigation by the energy regulator, Ofgem, found it had breached sales rules on the doorstep and over the phone between 2010 and September 2012.
Ofgem said that E.ON failed to properly train and monitor its staff and those it employed through third party telesales agencies, leading to incorrect information being provided to customers on the doorstep and over the phone.
As a result, customers were given incorrect information on the doorstep or over the phone and were not made aware of key terms of the contract before it was signed.
