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What does "house" mean?

In addition to the idiom beginning with house, also see boardinghouse reach; bring down the house; clean house; eat someone out of house and home; get on (like a house afire); keep house; on the house; open house; people who live in glass houses; put one's house in order; safe as houses.

See house in WNW Idioms

bring down the house

Informal to receive enthusiastic applause from the audience

clean house

to clean and put a home in order
â to get rid of all unwanted things, undesirable conditions, etc.

keep house

to take care of the affairs of a home; run a house

like a house on fire

or like a house afire

with speed and vigor

on the house

given free, at the expense of the establishment

play house

to pretend in child's play to be grown-up people with the customary household duties

set one's house in order

or put one's house in order

to put one's affairs in order

the House

See house in American Heritage Dictionary 4 Idioms

on fire

like a house /afire Informal

In an extremely speedy manner: ran away like a house on fire; tickets that sold like a house afire.

on the house

At the expense of the establishment; free: food and drinks on the house.

put

/set (one's) house in order

To organize one's affairs in a sensible, logical way.

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