darken someone's door

Meaning: (idiomatic)Toarriveat someone'sresidenceorlocation, especially as anunexpectedvisitor.1824,Sir Walter Scott,Redgauntlet, Letter 13:"I'll tell you, Peter," said I, "were I my lord, and a friend or kinsman of mine should leave the town while the court was sitting, that kinsman, or be he what he liked, should neverdarken my dooragain."1885,Edith Nesbit, “The Stolen God—Lazarus to Dives”, inMany Voices:He promised the poor His heaven,He loved and lived with the poor;He said that the rich man's shadowShould neverdarken His door.1917,Irving Bacheller, chapter 17, inThe Light in the Clearing:[T]he squire ain't sociable an' the neighbors neverdarken his door.2008,Valerie Wilson Wesley,Of Blood and Sorrow‎[1],→ISBN, page 3:Luckily, I'd scored some good-paying clients in the past two months along with the usual losers whodarken my doorand waste my time.

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