big house

big house {n.}

A large jail or prison.

The rapist will spend many years in the big house.

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[house] See: [BOARDING HOUSE REACH], [BRING DOWN THE HOUSE], [PUN HOUSE], [HASH HOUSE], [KEEP HOUSE], [ON THE HOUSE], [PARISH HOUSE], [PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN GLASS HOUSES SHOULD NOT THROW STONES], […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

on the house

[on the house] {adj. phr.}, {informal} Paid for by the owner. * /At the opening of the new hotel, the champagne was on the house./ * /Oscar was the first […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

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[keep house] (2) also [play house] {v. phr.}, {informal} To live together without being married. * /Bob and Nancy keep house these days./ A Dictionary of American Idioms

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[put one's house in order] or [set one's house in order] {v. phr.} To arrange your affairs in good order. * /Grandfather knew he would not live long and set […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

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