out of house and home: meaning & examples

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Language: English

Meanings:

  • 1.

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    • To consume or use up a household's food and provisions to the point of causing hardship for the occupants.

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    • The teenagers ate us out of house and home while they stayed here over the weekend.

      Los adolescentes nos dejaron sin comida mientras se quedaron aquí el fin de semana.

    • With all the guests arriving, we were out of house and home by the end of the party.

      Con todos los invitados llegando, nos quedamos sin provisiones al final de la fiesta.

    • My kids have been out of house and home this week, eating everything in the fridge.

      Mis hijos se han comido todo lo que había en la casa esta semana, dejando la nevera vacía.

  • 2.

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    • To render someone destitute, deprived of their possessions, or effectively driven from their home; to dispossess or ruin a household.

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    • The constant demands from creditors nearly drove the family out of house and home.

      Las constantes demandas de los acreedores casi dejaron a la familia sin hogar ni pertenencias.

    • After the fire, the victims were out of house and home and had to rely on community support.

      Después del incendio, las víctimas quedaron sin hogar y tuvieron que depender del apoyo comunitario.

    • The eviction threatened to put them out of house and home with nowhere to turn.

      El desalojo amenazaba con dejarlos sin hogar y sin a dónde ir.

Examples:

  • EN: By tomorrow morning there'll be nothing left. I'll be turned out of house and home along with my bedridden wife, my eldest daughter, who's coughing her lungs out, and my youngest, who had her arm mangled at the workshop.
    ES: Me echarán de la casa con mi esposa postrada, mi hija mayor, que tose a más no poder, y la menor, que se lastimó el brazo en el taller.
  • EN: Taxes eating us out of house and home on cut-over land that wouldn't grow a tree in a hundred years.
    ES: Nos cobran impuestos astronómicos sobre tierras ya explotadas que no podemos reutilizar.
  • EN: You'll be the ruin of me, you're eating me out of house and home.
    ES: ¡Ustedes me están matando, se comerán hasta mis huesos! ¡Caramba!
  • EN: He'll eat me out of house and home.
    ES: Me dejará la despensa vacía.
  • EN: Them ground-hogs nearly ate me out of house and home.
    ES: Sus marmotas han estado a punto de comerme ahí fuera.
  • EN: Letting them gorge you out of house and home.
    ES: Si Ies deja, se Ie comeran Ia casa entera.
  • EN: It's the Lord's will to feed strangers... even if they eat you out of house and home.
    ES: Hay que ser amable con los visitantes, aunque te dejen sin comida.
  • EN: Do you realize you're being sold out of house and home?
    ES: ¿No te das cuenta que van a vender tu casa, tu hogar?
  • EN: He pays his board regularly, but he's eating us out of house and home.
    ES: Paga su alquiler regularmente, pero se va a comer casa y hogar.
  • EN: You've got nothing else to do except sit here and eat us out of house and home.
    ES: No tienes nada más que hacer excepto sentarte aquí y comertelo todo.
  • EN: Those baboons will eat you out of house and home.
    ES: - Está en la principal. - Van a devorar todo.
  • EN: - Eating us out of house and home.
    ES: - Comiéndose todo lo que encuentra en la casa.
  • EN: He'd eat us out of house and home.
    ES: Acabaría con nuestra casa.
  • EN: They'll eat us out of house and home.
    ES: Son veinticuatro. Se comerán todo y nos dejarán sin hogar.
  • EN: Eating me out of house and home.
    ES: ¡Comiéndose mi hacienda entre todos!
  • EN: By tomorrow morning there'll be nothing left. I'll be turned out of house and home along with my bedridden wife, my eldest daughter, who's coughing her lungs out, and my youngest, who had her arm mangled at the workshop.
    ES: Me echarán de la casa con mi esposa postrada, mi hija mayor, que tose a más no poder, y la menor, que se lastimó el brazo en el taller.
  • EN: Taxes eating us out of house and home on cut-over land that wouldn't grow a tree in a hundred years.
    ES: Nos cobran impuestos astronómicos sobre tierras ya explotadas que no podemos reutilizar.
  • EN: You'll be the ruin of me, you're eating me out of house and home.
    ES: ¡Ustedes me están matando, se comerán hasta mis huesos! ¡Caramba!
  • EN: He'll eat me out of house and home.
    ES: Me dejará la despensa vacía.
  • EN: Letting them gorge you out of house and home.
    ES: Si Ies deja, se Ie comeran Ia casa entera.
  • EN: It's the Lord's will to feed strangers... even if they eat you out of house and home.
    ES: Hay que ser amable con los visitantes, aunque te dejen sin comida.
  • EN: Them ground-hogs nearly ate me out of house and home.
    ES: Sus marmotas han estado a punto de comerme ahí fuera.
  • EN: Do you realize you're being sold out of house and home?
    ES: ¿No te das cuenta que van a vender tu casa, tu hogar?
  • EN: He pays his board regularly, but he's eating us out of house and home.
    ES: Paga su alquiler regularmente, pero se va a comer casa y hogar.
  • EN: You've got nothing else to do except sit here and eat us out of house and home.
    ES: No tienes nada más que hacer excepto sentarte aquí y comertelo todo.

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