house of ill repute

Related to house of ill repute: House of Ill Fame

house of ill repute

euphemism A place where prostitutes are available for hire; a brothel. Please don't tell me that the media got a picture of the senator leaving a house of ill repute over the weekend. Though obviously in decline in recent years, houses of ill repute can still be found in the seedier parts of the city.
See also: house, ill, of, repute
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

house of ill repute

 and house of ill fame
Euph. a house of prostitution. The sign says "Health Club," but everyone knows it's a house of ill repute. He made a lot of money by running a house of ill fame.
See also: house, ill, of, repute
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • maker
  • between jobs
  • between projects
  • a visit from the stork
  • be in an interesting condition
  • be expecting
  • a London particular
  • London
  • be gathered to (one's) fathers
  • culturally advantaged
References in periodicals archive
Some days he doesn't dress at all, you'll see him moving along the street in my green bathrobe and those tatty slippers, he'll stop to chat with the baker, have a drink in one of the cafes with his old pals, everybody knows him, you'd think he has a thousand friends, and maybe he does, as he says, this is his old neighborhood, the House of Ill Repute was as much home to his gang as any place was.
Winter as Senex; Buzz Mauro as the slave Hysterium; and Christopher Bloch as Lycus, owner of the house of ill repute next door.
In LA the talked-about show was a Robert Motherwell exhibition at the Pasadena Art Museum ("He is more of an idea man than an executioner and his powers of executing things without conscious reasoning seem limited," wrote Arthur Secunda); and Edward Kienholz, already bigger than life locally for his scabrous sculptural tableaux vivants, showed up with an exhibition at Ferus Gallery (an "unreservedly tasteful and sophisticated replica of a 1943 American house of ill repute").
Reed and Bonney were captured and convicted, the Queen of the Nile turned tail in the face of the enemy, and Cheng ended her days managing a "gambling house of ill repute in Canton" (63).
And Rahab, who ran the most famous house of ill repute in Jericho?
Just spend 30 seconds watching the suits screaming at each other in Ottawa's House of Ill Repute and you will agree with me.
If Congress has become a house of ill repute, it didn't get that way by accident; as Marlene Dietrich once put, "It took more than one man to change my name to Shanghai Lily."
In one of his most memorable exploits he feared he would be killed after smoking marijuana in a Mexican house of ill repute with his close friend, Steve McQueen.
One of his most memorable exploits saw him almost killed while smoking marijuana in a Mexican house of ill repute with close friend Steve McQueen.
Far better for us to stand alone between the enemies in London's house of ill repute and the auld enemy north of the border and the way to do that, would be for all of us to buy North East made products where possible, thereby keeping as much of the money here as possible!
Once Upton Park was seen as a home of traditional football virtues, it is now viewed by many in the games as a house of ill repute. Obviously, there will be no pleasing some people and they will feel Everton's decision not to splash the cash means they have taken the first step backwards.
The corner building at 257 Bleecker was originally a bar and house of ill repute while the townhouse at 35 Cornelia was formerly an 18007s silo, used for storing wheat.
Wogan said Norton would have to tone down his risque act for a Saturday night family audience: ``He won't be able to call someone in a house of ill repute in New York on his computer any more.''
And if the house of ill repute happened to be located in the Storyville district of New Orleans during the fabled era of the early 1900s, when American jazz was struggling to be born, expectations would run even higher--not merely for sex, but for the music of sex as a life force.
Clary water have sexual "Tuppence, do you think we're getting out of our depth?" he whispers, remembering the previous night's horrors in the house of ill repute. "These people they're dangerous.