rent-free
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8.2
- adverb
- /rɛnt-fri/
- Slang
:
en la cabeza
- This quote has lived with me rent free ever since.
- live rent-free
Me doing or they won't or me doing that is is a sign that they won all the rent that they're that that's living in my head rent free.
- Me doing or they won't or me doing that is is a sign that they won all the rent that they're that that's living in my head rent free.
Examples
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I remind myself all the time that I need to stop letting them "live rent-free" in my head; it's just difficult to do consistently.
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I live rent-free in this dude's head.
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Crystal, the Ear Biscuits moment that lives in my head rent free is when Red was telling his story about his family trip to Scotland.
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She's just gonna let you live there rent-free?
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I think that when someone zings a birther comment at this point, it is to live rent-free in that person's head.
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Author Isabelle Holland reminds us, "As long as you don't forgive, who and whatever it is will occupy a rent-free space in your mind."
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I can't believe I let that argument live in my head rent-free after all these years.
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Watching that movie keeps playing in my mind rent-free even though I didn't like it.
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That embarrassing moment from school still occupies a rent-free space in my thoughts.
Synonyms
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8.6
A thought that stays in your mind and bothers you
To stay constantly in someone's thoughts and annoy them
Antonyms
How Intrusive
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Rent-free is also used informally; a helpful way to remember this use is to imagine someone living in your head 'without paying rent' and taking up space in your thoughts. So saying someone lives rent-free in your mind means they keep occupying your thoughts or feelings.