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on the house
Idioms and Phrases
At the expense of the establishment, as in This hotel serves an afternoon tea that's on the house . This idiom uses house in the sense of “an inn, tavern, or other building serving the public.†[Late 1800s]Example Sentences
The top Democrats on the House and Senate intelligence committees - Representative Jim Himes of Connecticut, ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, and Senator Mark Warner of Virginia, vice chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence - disclosed Gen Haugh's firing to CBS.
The rubble had been hauled away while the trucks worked on the house behind his, one truck beeping as it reversed while Redick looked up.
President Donald Trump is sweating his party's white-knuckle grip on the House of Representatives, and he's pulled yet another Cabinet nomination to avoid making the GOP's legislative troubles any worse.
"We tried to get out, we wanted to escape but there was nothing. It was night and suddenly there was bombing on the house."
Representative Adam Smith, the top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, condemned the content removal.
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