Idiom
make yourself at home
Meaning
An invitation to a guest in the speaker's home to treat the house as if it were theirs.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“Please come in and make yourself at home.”
“I have to finish some work in the kitchen, so please make yourself at home in the living room.”
“Upon arriving at the cottage, our host gestured toward the fireplace and insisted that we make ourselves at home while she prepared some tea.”
Examples
simple
“Please come in and make yourself at home.”
contextual
“I have to finish some work in the kitchen, so please make yourself at home in the living room.”
complex
“Upon arriving at the cottage, our host gestured toward the fireplace and insisted that we make ourselves at home while she prepared some tea.”
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