angel in the house Idiom, Proverb

a full house (cards)

a pair plus three of a kind, e.g., 2 kings and 3 aces In our last game of poker, you dealt me a full house.

a household name

"a name everyone knows; name of a famous person" Mario Lemieux, the hockey star, soon became a household name.

bring the house down

cause much laughter in the audience The comedian brought the house down with his jokes about the lost dog.

built like a brick shithouse

have a strong body, have a sturdy build Tyronne plays football. He's built like a brick shithouse.

eat you out of house and home

eat all your food, pig out Our son's team came to dinner and ate us out of house and home!

house of cards

something badly put together and easily knocked down, a poorly founded plan/action The peace agreement between the two countries was like a house of cards and fell apart as soon as a minor problem occurred.

household name

(See a household name)

in the doghouse

in disgrace or disfavor He is in the doghouse with his wife because he went out drinking three times last week.

in the poorhouse

poor, having little money, as poor as a church mouse In 1936, they were in the poorhouse. They couldn't grow crops, and nobody had a job.

keep house

look after a house or a household She has been keeping house for her father while he is sick.

angel in the house

A housewife who is pure, subservient, and adherent to her bedmate and family. A advertence to a anecdotal composition alleged The Angel in the House by Coventry Patmore. The byword is now about acclimated to catechism or abuse this abstraction as a archetypal of femininity. Though we've fabricated abundant strides in the accomplished half-decade against abounding adequation for women, there is still this abiding angle that a affiliated woman, abnormally a mother, should be the angel in the house.Learn more: angel, house

the angel in the house

a woman who is absolutely adherent to her bedmate and family. This was the appellation of a accumulating of balladry on affiliated love by Coventry Patmore ( 1823–96 ), and it is now mainly acclimated ironically.Learn more: angel, house

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keep an open mind keep at keep body and soul together keep books keep down keep fit keep from keep good time keep house keep in good shape keep in line keep in touch keep it down keep it quiet keep it to yourself keep it up keep on the (most) unkindest cut (of all) the (old) college try the (old) heave-ho the (same) mixture as before the (some kind of) gods the (someone) of the world the (someone) of this world the (something) card the (very) idea! the 64,000 dollar question the ABCs of the ABCs of (something) the acceptable face of the acceptable face of (something) the acceptable face of something the ace in (one's) hand the ace in your hand the acid test the advantage of the advantage of (something) the age of miracles is past the air the almighty dollar the American Dream the Ancient of Days the angel in the house the answer to somebody's prayers the answer's a lemon the apple does not fall far from the tree the apple doesn't fall/never falls far from the tree the apple never falls far from the tree the apple of (one's) eye the apple of somebody's eye the apple of your eye the armpit of (some place) the armpit of somewhere the arse is gone right out of her the ass end of creation the avant-garde the avs the awkward age the awkward squad the ax(e) the ayes have it the B the baby needs shoes the back of (one's) hand the back of beyond the back-room boys the balance of power the ball is in (one's) court