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u.s. house
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clean house
To clean the interior of a house.
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clean house
To reform by removing undesirable personnel and procedures.
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full house
poker hand
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house warming
Presented as a way of welcoming someone to a home into which he or she recently moved.
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move house
To change one's place of residence.
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opera house
music venue
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house of cards
A structure or argument built on a shaky foundation.
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bottoming the house
The process by where someone cleans their house 'from top to bottom'. It is a very thorough clean indeed, even more so than 'spring cleaning'.
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house cooling party
A party to celebrate when a person decides to leave a house or flat, and sometimes to help prepare the space for the incoming residents.
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house of cards
A structure made by laying cards perpendicularly on top of each other.
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on the house
Free, complimentary.
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rock the house
To jam at a concert, get down.
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semi detached house
type of building
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a house is not a home
A home is not merely a building but requires inhabitants and a friendly atmosphere.
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bring down the house
To garner enthusiastic or wild applause.
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out of house and home
Cassandra Chrones Moore, Haunted Housing: How Toxic Scare Stories Are Spooking the Public Out of House and Home.
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out of house and home
Gail White, Partying with the Intelligentsia.
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out of house and home
Global Checkup: How Healthy is Earth?, Science NOW.
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out of house and home
Helping Your Dog Adjust to a New Home, The Progressive Animal Welfare Society.
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out of house and home
In a manner that deprives one of dwelling or some aspect thereof.
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eat someone out of house and home
C. 1598, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 2, Act II Scene I.
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eat someone out of house and home
To consume such a portion of one's store of food that little is left for the owner.
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ask in
To invite someone to enter one's house.
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put up
To house, shelter, or take in.
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run back
To take someone home by car. Give someone a lift to their house.
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ask round
To invite someone to your house.
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bend one's elbow
To drink alcoholic beverages, especially at a public house or bar.
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clean up
To make a large profit; to win by a large margin, or to win a large amount, especially in gambling. Also clean house.
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company
Keep the house clean, I have company coming.
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crack a crib
To break into a house.
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first things first
Deal with matters of highest priority first; deal with matters in logical sequence.1922, H. G. Wells, The Secret Places of the Heart, ch.4,"First things first," said Sir Richmond. If we set about getting fuel sanely, if we do it as the deliberate, co-operative act of the whole species, then it follows that we shall look very closely into the use that is being made of it.1999, Frank Pellegrini, "House Republicans Quell Mutiny Over Tax Bounty," Time, 23 Jul.,Judging by the polls
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shotgun shack
A house with no internal barrier between the front and back doors.
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timing is everything
Consideration of other events can greatly influence some desired outcome (such as an audience laughing to a comedian's joke).Telling the old joke about a butt-crack was not a good idea, just as the plumber arrived, Bob.You know what they say: "timing is everything." I'm sure we can find another plumber before the house floods.
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whole shebang
A building or house and everything in it.
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