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
Nanna (2)-Near Eastern Mythology
OcÉAneo-se-AHNFrench
Deep-Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Bengali, Punjabi
TemperanceTEM-prənts, TEM-pər-əntsEnglish (Archaic)
Balaam['beilæm]
Elpidius-Late Greek (Latinized)