English
Adverb
out of house and home
- idiom In a manner that deprives one of dwelling or some aspect thereof.
#* Gail White, Partying with the Intelligentsia
#*: Poets will drink you out of house and home / leaving your living room in disarray
#* Helping Your Dog Adjust to a New Home, The Progressive Animal Welfare Society
#*: The other major reason [to puppy-proof] is to keep you from being chewed out of house and home.
#* Global Checkup: How Healthy is Earth?, Science NOW
#*: Many amphibians are being heated out of house and home.
#* 1999 May 31, Pile Drivers Move Residents Out of House and Home, The Press (Christchurch)
#* Cassandra Chrones Moore, Haunted Housing: How Toxic Scare Stories Are Spooking the Public Out of House and Home
Related terms
eat one out of house and home
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