make yourself at home
make (oneself) at home
To enter a particular place and make oneself comfortable, feeling free to behave as if one lived there. Often used as a polite imperative in the phrase "make yourself at home." Come in and make yourself at home! I'm just finishing up a few things in the kitchen. He really makes himself at home when he stays over, huh? Is that your sweater he's wearing?
See also: home, make
make yourself at home
An invitation to enter a particular place and make oneself comfortable, feeling free to behave as if one lived there. Come in and make yourself at home! I'm just finishing up a few things in the kitchen.
See also: home, make
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
Make yourself at home.
Fig. Please make yourself comfortable in my home. (Also a signal that a guest can be less formal.) Andy: Please come in and make yourself at home. Sue: Thank you. I'd like to. Bill: I hope I'm not too early. Bob: Not at all. Come in and make yourself at home. I've got a few little things to do. Bill: Nice place you've got here.
See also: home, make
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
make yourself at home
COMMON If you make yourself at home somewhere, you relax and feel comfortable as if you were in your own home. Arnold and Gwen had found the hidden key and made themselves at home. Once the boat left, the passengers all made themselves at home. Note: You say make yourself at home to a guest to invite them to behave in an informal, relaxed way. `Sit down,' Anne said. `Make yourself at home.' Please make yourself at home. Help yourself to anything you want.
See also: home, make
Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary, 3rd ed.
- put (oneself) at (one's) ease
- wash (one's) hands of (someone or something)
- wash hands of
- wash one's hands of
- wash your hands of
- wash your hands of somebody/something
- wash your hands of something/someone
- for (one's) (own) sake
- for sake
- keep in sight