Idioms about home
a roof over your head
Meaning: a place to live.
charity begins at home
Meaning: Charity begins at home is a proverb. It means that, before deciding to take care of other people, one’s family should be one’s foremost concern.
close to home
Meaning: If something is close to home, it affects you personally.
come out of the woodwork
Meaning: The phrase to come out of the woodwork is an idiomatic expression that means to emerge suddenly and unexpectedly
everything but the kitchen sink
Meaning: Almost everything, whether needed or not.
foot in the door
Meaning: To get a foot in the door means to make initial contact or to get an opportunity.
go home in a box
Meaning: to die and be shipped home.
go through the roof
Meaning: become very angry.
hit a home run
Meaning: to be successful.
hit the ceiling
Meaning: to become very angry and start shouting.
hit the roof
Meaning: Explode in rage; become extremely angry
home away from home
Meaning: A habitual hangout; a place one frequents often and where one feels welcome
home free
Meaning: to be certain of being successful because you have finished the most difficult part.
home truth
Meaning: The phrase home truth refers to an unpleasant fact about oneself.
house of cards
Meaning: a situation structure, system, organization, or plan that is weak and is likely to fail or collapse
make yourself at home
Meaning: ask them to consider themselves as if they were in their own homes.
man’s home is his castle
Meaning: This idiom suggest tha people are free to do whatever they want to in their own home
men make houses women make homes
Meaning: It’s often the men who build or acquire houses for their families, but it’s usually women who provide the things that make a house into a home.
roof something over
Meaning: to build a roof over something.
sweep something under the rug
Meaning: To hide something because it’s embarassing.
the home straight
Meaning: The last part of a difficult work.
the home stretch
Meaning: The last part of a difficult work.
wake up on the wrong side of bed
Meaning: To feel grumpy, irritable; to be easily annoyed.