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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
Monday’s announcement that Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., is “stepping back” from his role as the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee confirms what was apparent four months ago: Democrats made the wrong decision.
The Democrat from Virginia became a figurehead for the recalcitrant and aging wing of the party after leadership boosted his bid to serve as the party leader on the House Oversight Committee.
Political activist and singer Paul Robeson, who died a year before “Killer of Sheep” was completed, is all over the soundtrack, his booming voice serving as a moral compass, never more so than on “The House I Live In,” which hovers over a scene of Black children playing in a Watts littered with dirty streets and abandoned buildings.
A string of now deleted posts on the House of Commons leader's account described the "$HCC" coin as "a community-driven digital currency bringing people's power to the blockchain".
Garcia, who is on the House Homeland Security committee, said he is trying to determine whether it was the first such operation by federal immigration agents at any K-12 schools in the country.
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