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make yourself at home

idiom
Meaning

An invitation to a guest in the speaker's home to treat the house as if it were theirs.


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.

Anchors to
Related idioms8entries
  1. 01

    bring home

    To earn (money).

  2. 02

    bring home the bacon

    To have employment which provides remuneration to satisfy the basic needs of oneself and one's family.

  3. 03

    broken home

    A home in which the parents have separated or divorced.

  4. 04

    cannot make it

    Cannot reach satisfactory or expected standards or do something competently; describes someone in a hopeless situation.

  5. 05

    charity begins at home

    One should help the people closest to oneself before thinking of helping others.

  6. 06

    close to home

    Affecting people close to, or within, one's family circle.

  7. 07

    come home by weeping cross

    To return in disappointment, or in a spirit of contrition.

  8. 08

    come home to roost

    To have negative consequences (of an action in the past).

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