like a house on fire
如火如荼,如火如荼地进行着,如火如荼地进行,如火如荼地展开
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plural hous·es [hou-ziz]. /ˈhaʊ zɪz/.
- : a building in which people live; residence for human beings.
- : a household.
- : a family, including ancestors and descendants: the great houses of France; the House of Hapsburg.
- : a building for any purpose: a house of worship.
- : a theater, concert hall, or auditorium: a vaudeville house.
- : the audience of a theater or the like.
- : a place of shelter for an animal, bird, etc.: a doghouse.
- : the building in which a legislative or official deliberative body meets.
- : House, the body itself, especially of a bicameral legislature: the House of Representatives.
- : a quorum of such a body.
- : a commercial establishment; business firm: the House of Rothschild; a publishing house.
- : a gambling casino.
- : the management of a commercial establishment or of a gambling casino: rules of the house.
- : an advisory or deliberative group, especially in church or college affairs.
- : a college in an English-type university.
- : a residential hall in a college or school; dormitory.
- : the members or residents of any such residential hall.
- : Informal. a brothel; whorehouse.
- : house music.
- : British. a variety of lotto or bingo played with paper and pencil, especially by soldiers as a gambling game.
- : Also called parish .Curling. the area enclosed by a circle 12 or 14 feet in diameter at each end of the rink, having the tee in the center.
- : Nautical. any enclosed shelter above the weather deck of a vessel: bridge house; deck house.
- : Astrology. one of the 12 divisions of the celestial sphere, numbered counterclockwise from the point of the eastern horizon.
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housed [houzd], /haʊzd/, hous·ing [hou-zing]. /ˈhaʊ zɪŋ/.
- : to put or receive into a house, dwelling, or living quarters: More than 200 students were housed in the dormitory.
- : to give shelter to; harbor; lodge: to house flood victims in schools.
- : to provide with a place to work, study, or the like: This building houses our executive staff.
- : to provide storage space for; be a receptacle for or repository of: The library houses 600,000 books.
- : to remove from exposure; put in a safe place.
- : Nautical. to stow securely.to lower and make secure, as alongside the lower mast.to heave home.
- : Carpentry. to fit the end or edge of into a notch, hole, or groove.to form between two pieces of wood by fitting the end or edge of one into a dado of the other.
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housed [houzd], /haʊzd/, hous·ing [hou-zing]. /ˈhaʊ zɪŋ/.
- : to take shelter; dwell.
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- : of, relating to, or noting a house.
- : for or suitable for a house: house paint.
- : served by a restaurant as its customary brand: the house wine.
- : of or being a product made by or for a specific retailer and often sold under the store's own label: You'll save money on the radio if you buy the house brand.
Phrases
- house of cards
- boardinghouse reach
- bring down the house
- clean house
- eat someone out of house and home
- get on (like a house afire)
- keep house
- on the house
- open house
- people who live in glass houses
- put one's house in order
- safe as houses
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House Democrats were starting to squirm earlier this week, fretting that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s risky gamble in economic relief talks would backfire and they would go into the November elections without any new stimulus package.
In our rankings of top 10 House races most likely to flip in November, Democrats hold five of them — including three of the most vulnerable races.
Vice might not have a wealth of content around high fashion, for example, but consumers of a particular fashion house might still visit the site to read about politics or tech.
The bill must still be passed by the full House and the Senate and signed by the president.
Eight Democratic House committee chairs promptly dismissed the proposal on Tuesday, saying it felt short of what’s needed.
This Congress will welcome more women than ever before at 19 percent of the House and 20 percent of the Senate.
Even internally in the House, women are not getting their fair shake.
He then provides some insight into his psyche - complete with Animal House reference.
Even the arguably more democratic House is only at 10 percent black members.
While 19 percent of the House is female, just one woman will get to chair one of its 20 committees.
It was a decayed house of superb proportions, but of a fashion long passed away.
A Yankee, whose face had been mauled in a pot-house brawl, assured General Jackson that he had received his scars in battle.
On the thirteenth of the same month they bound to the stake, in order to burn alive, a man who had two religious in his house.
Old Mrs. Wurzel and the buxom but not too well-favoured heiress of the house of Grains were at the head of the table.
It goes without saying that Ferns of all kinds are interesting plants to grow in the garden and house.