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the knock at/on the door
idiom
an occasion when police or soldiers come to take you away from your home: 警察（或士兵）到家里来把某人带走
During the dictatorship people had come to fear the knock at the door in the middle of the night.独裁时期，人们害怕半夜时会被人从家里抓走。
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pick someone/something up
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