door-to-door salesman

Subtle scratches and fingerprints on the contraptions add to the door-to-door salesman aesthetic, making it feel touched.

That same year, he published his memoir, which touched on his sexuality — he knew he was gay ever since he was young, he wrote, but “believed that if I ignored it long enough, it might go away, like the hiccups or a door-to-door salesman” — and his tumultuous marriage to Linda, which ended in divorce in the late 1970s.

My dad, when I was growing up, was a door-to-door salesman, selling books.

After the War, Mervyn spent time as a door-to-door salesman - a job he did not enjoy.

Don’t miss Tad Friend’s profile of a successful door-to-door salesman in The New Yorker.