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cuias eswhat country do you come from?Rate it:

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curb appealThe visual attractiveness which a house, commercial establishment, or other real estate property has when initially seen by a prospective buyer or other person standing in front of the property "at the curb".Rate it:

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deducere aliquem de domoto escort a person from his house.Rate it:

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déménager à la cloche de bois (fam.)To shoot the moon; To leave a house without paying one’s rent or one’s creditors.Rate it:

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deverti ad aliquem (ad [in] villam)to go to a man's house as his guest.Rate it:

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diligens paterfamiliasa careful master of the house.Rate it:

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dine outTo have dinner away from one's house, usually at a restaurant.Rate it:

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domi (opp. foris)at home; in one's native country.Rate it:

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domum aedificandam locare, conducereto give, undertake a contract for building a house.Rate it:

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domum demoliri (Top. 4. 22)to demolish, raze a house.Rate it:

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domum frequentare (Sall. Cat. 14. 7)to be a regular visitor at a house.Rate it:

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domus collapsura, corruitura (esse) videturthe house threatens to fall in (vid. sect. X. 5, note "Threaten"...).Rate it:

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domus necessariis rebus instructaa comfortably-furnished house.Rate it:

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domus non omnes capit (χωρειν)the house is not large enough for all.Rate it:

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domus patet, aperta est mihiI am always welcome at his house.Rate it:

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domus rimas agitthe house walls are beginning to crack.Rate it:

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domus ruina impendetthe house threatens to fall in (vid. sect. X. 5, note "Threaten"...).Rate it:

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domus subita ruina collapsa estthe house suddenly fell in ruins.Rate it:

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dummy outFrom a video game in the process of localizing that game from a foreign country.Rate it:

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e pluribus unumA national motto of the United States of America, meaning "From many, one", or "out of many, one", referring to the integration of 13 independent colonies into one country, and that has taken an additional meaning, giving the pluralistic nature of American society from immigration.Rate it:

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eat someone out of house and homeC. 1598, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 2, Act II Scene I.Rate it:

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eat someone out of house and homeTo consume such a portion of one's store of food that little is left for the owner.Rate it:

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Eat You Out of House and HomeTo eat and spend everything that other person has in his houseRate it:

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en rase (or, pleine) campagneIn the open country.Rate it:

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essuyer les plâtresTo live in a newly-built house (and therefore damp). Rate it:

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essuyer les plâtresTo move into a newly-built house before the walls are dry; (fig.) To experience the disadvantages of a beginning.Rate it:

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evertere aliquem bonis, fortunis patriisto drive a person out of house and home.Rate it:

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expellere aliquem domo, possessionibus pellereto turn a person out of his house, his property.Rate it:

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exterminare (ex) urbe, de civitate aliquem (Mil. 37. 101)to expel a person from the city, country.Rate it:

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exturbare aliquem omnibus fortunis, e possessionibusto drive a person out of house and home.Rate it:

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finitimum esse terraeto be contiguous, adjacent to a country.Rate it:

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first things firstDeal with matters of highest priority first; deal with matters in logical sequence.1922, H. G. Wells, The Secret Places of the Heart, ch.4,"First things first," said Sir Richmond. If we set about getting fuel sanely, if we do it as the deliberate, co-operative act of the whole species, then it follows that we shall look very closely into the use that is being made of it.1999, Frank Pellegrini, "House Republicans Quell Mutiny Over Tax Bounty," Time, 23 Jul.,Judging by the pollsRate it:

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fly the flagTo support one's country enthusiasticallyRate it:

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fly the flagTo be registered in a particular country and display that country's flag as a resultRate it:

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foras exire (Plaut. Amph. 1. 2. 35)to go out of the house.Rate it:

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foras mittere aliquemto turn some one out of the house.Rate it:

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foreign ministerPolitical or official representative person of one country in another country.Rate it:

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fresh country eggsUsed other than as an idiom: see fresh, country, eggs.Rate it:

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fresh country eggsA common way to describe ordinary chicken eggs on a breakfast menu, especially in expensive restaurants and hotels.Rate it:

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full housepoker handRate it:

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get on like a house on fireTo immediately start a good relationship with someoneRate it:

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get outTo spend free time out of the house.Rate it:

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grease paymentA bribe or extorted money, usually relatively small in amount, provided to a low-level government official or business person, in order to expedite a business decision, shipment, or other transaction, especially in a country where such payments are not unusual.Rate it:

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habitare in domo alicuius, apud aliquem (Acad. 2. 36. 115)to live in some one's house.Rate it:

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haunted houseA Halloween amusement attraction in which a building or series of rooms is decorated to frighten the people who pass through the attraction.Rate it:

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haunted houseUsed other than as an idiom: see haunted, house.Rate it:

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hospitio aliquem accipere or excipere (domum ad se)to welcome a man as a guest in one's house.Rate it:

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house cooling partyA party to celebrate when a person decides to leave a house or flat, and sometimes to help prepare the space for the incoming residents.Rate it:

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house of cardsA structure or argument built on a shaky foundation.Rate it:

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house of cardsA structure made by laying cards perpendicularly on top of each other.Rate it:

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