next door to

1. Very close to, as in The old dog was next door to death. This metaphoric expression, alluding to an adjacent house, was first recorded in 1529.

Example Sentences

A Los Angeles County judge ordered the owners of a troubled metal recycling facility to pay $2 million in penalties and permanently cease operations next door to a Watts high school, ending decades-long fears over industrial pollution and dangerous mishaps.

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MOCA’s Geffen Contemporary warehouse space in Little Tokyo is an ideal venue, not least because it’s next door to the Japanese American National Museum’s Democracy Center — the site where thousands of U.S. citizens of Asian ancestry were rounded up in 1942 to be sent to concentration camps.

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The statistical term for that is Stanley deviation, if you happen to live next door to the Stanleys.

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“It wasn’t on the West Coast, but it’s actually right next door” to where the company now operates, he said.

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Schwarzman, who usually arrives by helicopter, also bought the farm next door to host pheasant and partridge shoots.

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Related Words

• adjoining 
• neighboring