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at-home[ətʹhəʋm]
n разг.
<Í> небольшой, неофициальный приём гостей, назначенный на определённое время
there will be an at-home at the Embassy from 4 to 6 - в посольстве будет приём с четырёх до шести часов

eat out of house and home Идиома

at home

in one

bring home the bacon

bring home a paycheque, support a family Stan is disabled, so Louise brings home the bacon.

bring home the importance of something to someone

make someone fully realize something He was unable to bring home the importance of arriving early for the meeting.

charity begins at home

"first help the needy in your own community; then help others" If you want to help the poor, remember that charity begins at home.

chickens come home to roost

we cannot escape the consequences of our actions We soon discover that lies return to their owner, just as chickens come home to roost.

come home to roost

(See chickens come home to roost)

down home

simple but good, old fashioned Hey, Ma. I can't wait to taste your down-home cookin'.

drive it home

make a message clear, say it so they understand When you talk about safe sex, drive it home. Stress safety.

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!

get home

arrive at home, come home I'm going to bed when I get home. I'm sleepy.

eat (one) out of abode and home

To eat ample quantities of one's food. This byword is usually acclimated hyperbolically. Kim may be tiny, but she has a big appetite, so don't be afraid if she eats you out of abode and home.Learn more: and, eat, home, house, of, out

eat someone out of abode and home

Fig. to eat aggregate that addition has in the house. That huge dog is bistro us out of abode and home. The absolute football aggregation came over and ate poor Sally out of abode and home.Learn more: and, eat, home, house, of, out

eat addition out of abode and home, to

To absorb a abundant deal. This announcement is at atomic two thousand years old. It appeared in the Alexandrian philosopher Philo’s De Agricultura (ca. a.d. 40) as able-bodied as in abundant English writings, afore Shakespeare acclimated it for Mistress Quickly’s description of the abominable Falstaff: “He hath eaten me out of abode and home” (Henry IV, Part 2, 2.1). Learn more: and, eat, house, of, out, someone

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More Idioms/Phrases

get-go get going get good wood on get hell get high get him back get hold of (someone) get hold of (something) get home get in deeper get in my face get in on it get in on the ground floor get in the swing of things get in touch with someone get in your hair get into her pants eat like a horse eat like a pig eat lunch eat me Eat me! eat my shorts Eat my shorts! eat nails eat off eat one’s gun eat one’s hat eat one’s heart out eat one's cake and have it (too) eat one's cake and have it, too eat one's cake and have it, too, to eat one's hat eat one's hat, to eat one's heart out eat one's heart out, to eat one's words eat one's words, to eat out eat out of eat out of (one's) hand eat out of hand eat out of house and home eat out of someone's hand eat out of someone's hand, to eat pussy eat salt eat salt with eat salt with (someone) eat shit Eat shit! eat somebody alive eat somebody out of house and home eat somebody's lunch eat someone alive eat someone out of house and home eat someone out of house and home, to eat someone’s lunch eat someone's ass out eat someone's dust eat someone's lunch eat something up eat the bread of idleness eat through eat through (something) eat to live, not live to eat eat up eat up with

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eat out là gì