to make yourself at home
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3.0
- idiom
:
sentirse como en casa
- No, please make yourself at home.
- please make yourself at home
- just make yourself at home
- come in, make yourself at home
Examples
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Why don't I go get them, and you just kind of make yourself at home.
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Please make yourself at home while I prepare dinner.
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Well, just make yourself at home.
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Go ahead, make yourself at home.
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So make yourself at home.
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"Go right on up and make yourself at home.
Fiction book (1998) -
"Of course, make yourself at home," the old man said.
Fiction book (1999) -
"Make yourself at home," Nick pulled out a chair and sat across the table from his new boss.
Fiction book (1998) -
So... why don't you make yourself at home?
Fiction book (1995) -
Then Aunt Hilda was gone, and Martin went away on conventions, and Helena, with great kindness, told Anna to make herself at home.
Fiction book (1996)
Synonyms
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2.7
Be comfortable and relaxed as if in your own home
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3.1
Sit down and relax as if you are at home
How Comfortable
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3.0
132
3.3
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is directly interpretable from its parts: 'make' (cause), 'yourself' (reflexive), and the locative 'at home' together yield 'cause yourself to be at home' — i.e. behave as if you are in your own house. This composition follows common English patterns (compare 'make yourself comfortable') and has clear cross-linguistic equivalents, so a B1 learner who knows the words will likely infer the intended meaning.
Etymology
The phrase make yourself at home comes from the picture of a host telling a guest to act like they are in their own house: sit down, relax, and help yourself to food or drinks. So it means 'be relaxed and comfortable' when you are in another person's home.