Idiom
house cooling party
Meaning
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.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“We are hosting a house cooling party before we move away.”
“You should bring some cleaning supplies to my house cooling party this weekend.”
“Since they were moving to a new city, they invited all their neighbors to a house cooling party.”
“I spent the entire house cooling party scrubbing the kitchen floors while my friends helped me pack the last few boxes for the moving truck.”
“Instead of buying gifts, guests at the house cooling party helped the owner paint the walls white for the next person moving in.”
“After years of memories in their first apartment, they decided to host a house cooling party to say goodbye to the space and help the new tenants settle in.”
Examples
simple
“We are hosting a house cooling party before we move away.”
“You should bring some cleaning supplies to my house cooling party this weekend.”
contextual
“Since they were moving to a new city, they invited all their neighbors to a house cooling party.”
“I spent the entire house cooling party scrubbing the kitchen floors while my friends helped me pack the last few boxes for the moving truck.”
“Instead of buying gifts, guests at the house cooling party helped the owner paint the walls white for the next person moving in.”
complex
“After years of memories in their first apartment, they decided to host a house cooling party to say goodbye to the space and help the new tenants settle in.”
Origin
The term arose as a linguistic inversion of housewarming, mirroring the established structure of the latter to mark the conclusion of a residency rather than its commencement. It functions as a direct antonymic coinage.
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