a house is not a home
a house is not a home
A house is just a physical structure, while a home is lived-in (often by a family) and full of memories. A: "I know it hurts to move to a new town, but we'll have a new house there, and—" B: "Oh, a house is not a home! It won't be the same!"
See also: home, house, not
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
- move house
- tiny house
- keep open house
- open house, keep
- house and home
- eat someone out of house and home, to
- ask up
- out of square
- haunted house
- spend the night with somebody/together