house cooling party
- noun
- Informal
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fiesta de despedida
- We're hosting a house cooling party this Saturday!
Examples
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Jessica's house cooling party was a huge success.
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We decided to invite all our friends to the house cooling party before the big move.
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Her house cooling party was filled with laughter, memories, and a few tears.
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They threw a memorable house cooling party to say goodbye to their old neighbors.
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We decided to invite all our friends to the house cooling party before the big move.
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They threw a memorable house cooling party to say goodbye to their old neighbors.
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Her house cooling party was filled with laughter, memories, and a few tears.
Synonyms
A party to say goodbye to someone leaving a job or group
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a party to celebrate moving out' cannot be derived from the constituents: a B1 learner knowing 'house', 'cooling' and 'party' would likely interpret it as a party involving cooling the house or a low-temperature event rather than a farewell for moving out. The use of 'cooling' to signal vacating a home is not a transparent, compositionally predictable English pattern and is not cross-linguistically common, so learners would not infer the intended sense without prior exposure.
Etymology
The phrase house cooling party may come from doing the opposite of a 'house-warming': instead of warming a new home, friends gather one last time to cool the old house and share goodbyes before they leave. That's why it now means 'a farewell party to celebrate moving out'.
