If people beat a path to someone's door, they are eager to talk to that person or do business with them. Business leaders should be beating a path to Mr Eggar's door demanding that tough environmental laws be passed. Fashion editors now beat a path to Mugler's door and thousands of followers flock to get into one of his events. Note: This expression has been attributed to the American writer Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-82), who used similar words in a lecture: `If a man write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbour, 'tho he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.'