room

Related to room: chat room, room for rent
See:
  • (as) nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs
  • a smoke-filled room
  • back room
  • back room boys
  • backroom boy
  • boys in the back room
  • breathing room
  • breathing space
  • Can I use your powder room?
  • Could I use your powder room?
  • Don't let it go any further
  • don't let it out of this room
  • elbow room
  • elephant in the room
  • elephant in the room, an
  • engine room
  • freedom of maneuver
  • freedom of/room for manoeuvre
  • gab room
  • get a room
  • go to your room
  • Go to your room!
  • green room
  • house room
  • in a smoke-filled room
  • in the rooms
  • ladies' room
  • ladies’ room
  • leave the room
  • little boys' room
  • little boys’ room
  • little girls' room
  • little girls’ room
  • locker room talk
  • locker-room
  • locker-room humor
  • locker-room talk
  • make room
  • make room (for someone or something)
  • May I use your powder room?
  • no room to swing a cat
  • not enough room to swing a cat
  • not give (someone or something) houseroom
  • not give house room
  • not give someone house room
  • on the cutting room floor
  • On your bike!
  • powder room
  • read the room
  • room and board
  • room at the top
  • room for doubt
  • room for rent
  • room for/to maneuver
  • room together
  • room with
  • room with (one)
  • room-in (with one's baby)
  • room-temperature IQ
  • rubber room
  • rumpus room
  • save room (for something)
  • send (one) to the locker room
  • send to the showers
  • smallest room in the house
  • smoke-filled room
  • some elbow room
  • take up room
  • take up space
  • the back-room boys
  • the boys in the back room
  • the elephant in the room
  • there is always room at the top
  • throne room
  • Where is your powder room?
  • wiggle room
  • work the room
References in classic literature
In which room? That question was not easy to answer.
She ascertained from old Mazey that it was his master's custom, during the winter and spring months, to occupy the rooms in the north wing; and during the summer and autumn to cross the Arctic passage of "Freeze-your-Bones," and live in the eastward apartments which looked out on the garden.
No Name
He was like a writer busy among the figures of his brain, a kind of tiny blue-eyed king he was, in a six- dollar room facing Washington Square in the city of New York.
He began to tell little lies about business engagements that would give him freedom to walk alone in the street at night and, the chance offering, he secretly re-rented the room fac- ing Washington Square.
Winesberg Ohio
Upon it was some desolate flotsam cast aside by the room's marooned when a lucky sail had borne them to a fresh port--a trifling vase or two, pictures of actresses, a medicine bottle, some stray cards out of a deck.
The Four Million
At first I had thought of the tree which, a week ago, served me for an observatory; but I immediately saw that, from the way the window was half-opened, I should not be able to see from that point of view anything that was passing in the room; and I wanted, not only to see, but to hear, and--to act.
The Mystery of the Yellow Room
Descending from the table, she left the parlour, and went upstairs, intending to enter the room overhead, which was the bedchamber at the back of the drawing-room.
Tess of the dUrbervilles A Pure Woman
Catherine understood her: the general must be watched from home, before that room could be entered.
Northanger Abbey
Dorothy put on a green silk apron and tied a green ribbon around Toto's neck, and they started for the Throne Room of the Great Oz.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Levin went to his brother's room. He had not in the least expected what he saw and felt in his brother's room.
Anna Karenina
"Be good enough to enter, sir, and make yourself at home in the rooms our Royal Ozma has ordered prepared for you.
The Road to Oz
Most eagerly of all her mind turned to the wondrously exciting problem about to be solved: behind which of all these fascinating doors was waiting now her room--the dear, beautiful room full of curtains, rugs, and pictures, that was to be her very own?
Pollyanna
I was not anxious to assist Strickland in his work, hut I took the loading-rod and waited in the dining-room, while Strickland brought a gardener's ladder from the veranda and set it against the side of the room. The snake tails drew themselves up and disappeared.
From Mine Own People
Bruff's manner convinced me that it was wisest to check the impulse while he was in the room. In less than two minutes it was all over--and Samuel (unbenefited by what I might have said) had gone downstairs again.
The Moonstone
The room in which Montbarry had died was still fitted up as a bedroom, and was now distinguished as Number Fourteen.
The Haunted Hotel