houseroom

house room

Involvement with someone or something. Often used in the negative phrase "not give house room," meaning to avoid someone or something due to wariness. Our group simply will not give house room to close-minded people like that.
See also: house, room

not give (someone or something) houseroom

old-fashioned To completely reject or disdain someone or something; to refuse to have or entertain someone or something. While I admire his confidence in his own writing, by not giving criticisms houseroom, he's actually depriving himself of a valuable insight into how to refine his work. I simply don't give people like that houseroom. They're not welcome around me, and I in turn have nothing to do with them.
See also: give, houseroom, not
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

not give something houseroom

be unwilling to have or consider something. British
The word houseroom , dating from the late 16th century, literally means ‘lodging or accommodation in a house’.
1986 Liz Lochhead True Confessions Course I do get the Woman and the Woman's Own plus I swap Options for the Cosmopolitan off our Joy. I wouldn't give Woman's Realm houseroom.
See also: give, houseroom, not, something
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary

not give somebody/something ˈhouseroom

(British English) not want somebody/something in your house because you dislike or do not approve of it/them; completely reject somebody/something: I wouldn’t give that ugly old furniture houseroom. She won’t give any of these theories houseroom.
See also: give, houseroom, not, somebody, something
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary
See also:
  • be out of (one's) league
  • be out of somebody's league
  • be/have done with somebody/something
  • be in line with (someone or something)
  • better of
  • (someone or something) promises well
  • bird has flown, the
  • begin with
  • begin with (someone or something)
  • bear off from (someone or something)
References in periodicals archive
NOBODY in my neck of the woods would give houseroom to a "tortus" but there are lots of "tortoyces." A regional choice or should I say "chus".
James Whitaker Column: Dear James
There were some big Art Nouveau oak cupboards that were so depressing I wouldn't give them houseroom. When it comes to wood, the Venetians had the right idea--keep it painted.
Art plus: comic novelist Robert Plunket sees more than meets the eye at Miami Beach's Wolfsonian collection. (At Large)
Why give houseroom to the food processor/electric carvingknife/toasted sandwich maker if you never use them?
Inside Homes: Cook up harmony at heart of the home; THE KITCHEN: Empty those cabinets of out-of-date food to start revitalising the room where we spend most of our time
Furthermore, under plans laid just two years ago, competition was to be introduced into the last mile by allowing houseroom at the exchanges to other telecom providers, such as Telewest and Cable & Wireless.
High-tech telecoms struggling to make it to the end of the last mile; Bill Gleeson looks at BT's slow progress in bringing Britain's telecom network into the 21st Century - and those companies that think they can do a getter job
Anyway, The Street and possibly Frasier are about the only reasons I can think of for giving the video houseroom.
Bittersweet Street that never ends; It warms you better than a bath
No longer will "it snow from the heart", not after giving these poems houseroom. Start with the exquisite Scene with Fiddles and stop, "struggling through snowdrifts".
Poet Laureate who won't rest on his laurels; The recent National Poetry Day reminded us once more of the pleasures of verse. Marianne Nault reviews the latest poetry books
One of the problems is that precious few viewers watching the wretched programme will have the slightest idea of the genuine terror that Orwell's concept of Big Brother could instill, and it is probably television's fault that a `celebrity' is now something to be given the same houseroom as the bubonic plague.
TV, celebrit yand the perils of becoming car ried aw ay; `The great secret to appearing on television is not to get carried away with the fact, not to fall into the trap that it brings with it some notion of importance or stature'
Common sense, it would seem, has gone right out of the window giving houseroom to further nannying from an interfering government who - have no doubt - will soon be issuing guidelines on how to mate, with whom and the preferred units of alcohol to be consumed before the act.
Sue Carroll Column: Rape law cries out for common sense
They're starkers staring mad, the lot of them, pathetic sexhibionists who shouldn't be given houseroom on mainstream TV.
TV Plus; Time these sad folk faced the NAKED TRUTH
SKY and the Beeb are jousting for golf viewers this afternoon and unless you are a chauvinist pig who won't give houseroom to the women's game, the more intriguing sport is being served up by Annika Sorenstam and her mates in the British Open at Royal Lytham.
Golf: Spreadwise: Hee-Won the one you want
If he changes the sheets occasionally too, we'd give him houseroom.
Men and sex: Bloke's boudoir; Our mission? To uncover what lurks behind the closed doors of boys' bedrooms. Lee Barnsley, 26, a graphic designer from Liverpool, was up for it. He shares a flat with a mate
Sue Lawley looked suitably aghast when Here and Now featured three families who, between them, had given houseroom to a great big hairy tarantula, a giant lizard and a 6ft python.
Linda makes it wish 'n' ships; Linda makes it