owner

for sale by owner

A phrase used to indicate that the owner of an item is the one selling it. Let's just go to a car dealership—I don't want to deal with a "for sale by owner" situation. We'll just post this stuff online as for sale by owner and see who's interested in buying it.
See also: by, owner, sale

learning is a treasure that follows its owner everywhere

proverb Information that one learns will continue to be of help or benefit throughout one's life. To me, college is a worthy investment because learning is a treasure that follows its owner everywhere.
See also: everywhere, follow, learning, owner, that, treasure

learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere

proverb Information that one learns will continue to be of help or benefit throughout one's life. To me, college is a worthy investment because learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
See also: everywhere, follow, learning, owner, that, treasure, will
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

for sale by owner

and FIZZBO
for sale by owner. One computer. FIZZBO. $100.
See also: by, owner, sale
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • for sale by owner
  • FIZZBO
  • for free
  • Hobson's choice
  • bring (someone or something) out in droves
  • bring out in droves
  • and the rest
  • eggs is eggs
  • only too (something)
  • only too well
References in classic literature
"What happened to him?" asked the owner, with an air of considerable resignation.
I have known of still other cases in which the former slaves have assisted in the education of the descendants of their former owners. I know of a case on a large plantation in the South in which a young white man, the son of the former owner of the estate, has become so reduced in purse and self-control by reason of drink that he is a pitiable creature; and yet, notwithstanding the poverty of the coloured people themselves on this plantation, they have for years supplied this young white man with the necessities of life.
As it was, the place was a zoo, and free at that; for, in addition to the animals he owned and trained and bought and sold, a large portion of the business was devoted to boarding trained animals and troupes of animals for owners who were out of engagements, or for estates of such owners which were in process of settlement.
Besides, suppose your worship should never see the lady, nor give it her--and, though your worship looks and talks very much like a gentleman, yet I have only your worship's bare word; and, certainly, if the right owner ben't to be found, it all belongs to the first finder.
After all these years I am still confident that excavations which I have neither the legal right to undertake nor the wealth to make would disclose the secret of the disappearance of my unhappy friend, and possibly of the former occupants and owners of the deserted and now destroyed house.
They had several children, and lived unmolested until the original owner died, when his heir attempted to regain them; but the magistrate before whom they were brought, decided that he had no jurisdiction in the case.
Two or three, including the owner, sprawled in the cockpit, shuddering when the yacht lifted and raced and sank dizzily into the trough, and between-whiles regarding the shore with yearning eyes.
Pinocchio went to the owner of a circus, who wanted to teach him to do tricks for his audiences.
"It will give me great pleasure, sir," said the Owner of a Silver Mine, "to serve one so closely allied to me in - in - well, you know," he added, with a significant gesture of his two hands upward from the sides of his head.
Well, the first Caswall in our immediate record is an Edgar, head of the family and owner of the estate, who came into his kingdom just about the time that George III.
Besides the plunderers, very various people, some drawn by curiosity, some by official duties, some by self-interest- house owners, clergy, officials of all kinds, tradesmen, artisans, and peasants- streamed into Moscow as blood flows to the heart.
"It shall be so," said he of the Rueful Countenance, "and I am very glad that thou art willing to rely on my courage, which will never fail thee, even though the soul in thy body fail thee; so come on now behind me slowly as well as thou canst, and make lanterns of thine eyes; let us make the circuit of this ridge; perhaps we shall light upon this man that we saw, who no doubt is no other than the owner of what we found."
Being a slave owner and like other slave owners a politician, he was naturally an original secessionist and ardently devoted to the Southern cause.
Gift, in one case, makes it as really the new owner's, as labor made it the first owner's: in the other case, of patrimony, the law makes an ownership which will be valid in each man's view according to the estimate which he sets on the public tranquillity.
Ut was savun' money on lighters tull the owner, an' I gave ut tull hum.