be out of house and home



be out of house and home

To be evicted; to no longer have someplace to live. If my wife loses her job like so many of her co-workers, we'll be out of house and home for sure. Several hundred students may suddenly be out of house and home after the university-owned apartment building failed to pass its annual health and safety inspection on Friday.
See also: and, home, house, of, out

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Douglass['dɔgləs]
Demostrate-Ancient Greek
Sullivan['sʌlivən]
Riad-Arabic
Madai-Biblical
Timotheus-Biblical Latin, German, Dutch