English-Portuguese translations for doormat

• capacho
  Pois bem, não, não queremos ser capachos!Well, doormats are not what we want to be!
  O senhor não pode continuar a ser sempre um capacho e a aturar este tipo de abuso. You cannot keep being a doormat for ever and putting up with such abuse.
  Os deputados demonstraram também que o Parlamento não aceitará ser tratado como um capacho. MEPs have also shown that the Parliament will not accept to be treated like a doormat.

Definition of doormat

• A coarse mat at the entrance to a house, upon which one wipes one's shoes
• Someone who is overly submissive to otherswishes

Examples

• Wipe your shoes on the doormat before you start plodding around in the house.
• Hes such a doormat, he lets everyone walk all over him.

Related words

• doorman
• hotel doorman
• coir doormat