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the knock at/on the door

Definition

an occasion when police or soldiers come to take you away from your home: During the dictatorship people had come to fear the knock at the door in the middle of the night.Arresting and charging
(Definition of the knock at/on the door from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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