Idiom
reckon without one's host
Meaning
To calculate one's bill without checking with the host or landlord; hence, to come to false conclusions, to miscalculate.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“He planned the party but reckoned without his host regarding the budget.”
“I thought the project would be easy, but I reckoned without my host and underestimated the difficulty of the task.”
“The politician assumed the public would support the new tax, but he had reckoned without his host, failing to anticipate the widespread and intense opposition that followed.”
Examples
simple
“He planned the party but reckoned without his host regarding the budget.”
contextual
“I thought the project would be easy, but I reckoned without my host and underestimated the difficulty of the task.”
complex
“The politician assumed the public would support the new tax, but he had reckoned without his host, failing to anticipate the widespread and intense opposition that followed.”
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