slang To be in trouble with someone due to one's misdeeds or blunders. I'll be in the doghouse if I come into work late again this week.You've been in the doghouse with Maria ever since you forgot her birthday.
if someone is in the doghouse, another person is annoyed with them because of something they have done I forgot to turn the oven off and the dinner's ruined, so I'm really in the doghouse.