house of horrors
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- noun
- /haʊs əv ˈhɔrərz/
- NSFW
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casa del horror
- At times, Lubbock has been a house of horrors for Texas, with the 2002 and 2008 losses standing as some of the more monumental defeats in recent program history in terms of altering the outcome of the season in question.
Examples
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The Superdome has been a house of horrors for the 49ers in recent years.
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In the halcyon town of Helverton, Colorado, a veritable house of horrors was discovered today... by a detective searching for his missing daughter.
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It's like the house of horrors.
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This is the house of horrors.
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It's a house of horrors!
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I'd take jail over that house of horrors.
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For them, the Azteca was a house of horrors where nobody won.
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Tonight, a house of horrors has been discovered at what used to be known as the Rowan Zoological Institute.
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Located near the old fairgrounds, the haunted funhouse became known as a house of horrors for its terrifying attractions.
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After visiting the abandoned asylum, they couldn't shake the feeling that it was a genuine house of horrors.
Synonyms
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A house that people think ghosts live in
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A situation that is chaotic and full of problems
Antonyms
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is compositionally built: 'house' (a building) + 'of' (linking) + 'horror(s)' (things causing fear), so its meaning as a building characterized by terrifying or gruesome things is directly derivable from the parts. This genitive/of-construction is common cross-linguistically, so an average B1 learner who knows the constituents should readily infer the intended meaning.
Etymology
The noun house of horrors comes from the picture of a house full of horrors—rooms with frightening or cruel scenes. Because writers and reporters used this image for places where terrible things happened, it now means 'a place of terrifying or cruel events'.