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on the house



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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]
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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.

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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.

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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.

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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".

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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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