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词组 overstay welcome
释义
Idiom
overstay welcomeoutstay/overstay (your) welcome
to stay in a place longer than someone wants you to stay.
One more cup of tea and then we'll go. We don't want to outstay our welcome!
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overstay (one's) welcome

1. To remain a guest in a place, especially someone's home, for too long, to the point where the host no longer wishes one to stay. After the cool reception I received at breakfast, it was apparent that I had overstayed my welcome at the cottage of my father's friend.
2. By extension, to do something that makes one no longer welcome in or at a place. Things were going fine at the dinner meeting until my coworker made a rather off-color joke, at which point it seemed that we'd overstayed our welcome.
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