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Meanings of own roof in English
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Usage of own roof in English
1
My dear father has been brutally slain under his own roof tree.
2
But he never gave breakfasts, dinners, or suppers under his own roof.
3
Not many days later and he was under her own roof in Providence.
4
Mrs. Heard said nothing of the one then hidden under their own roof.
5
This was the last night he passed beneath his own roof.
6
This daring deceit in his own house, under his own roof, was infamous.
7
The O'Clory and the others will be here to-night, under your own roof.
8
But he must make acquaintance with these under his own roof.
9
But there was no mistake as to his state under his own roof.
10
He felt as if he were literally under his own roof-tree.
11
But under my own roof, at any rate, I am master.
12
Ay, he permitted the horror to enter beneath his own roof.
13
He's always made a bit of a fuss over under his own roof.
14
Yet I would rather die under my own roof than in a gaol.'
15
Yet I would rather die under my own roof than in a jail.
16
See your own roof in flames if you will; you shall not ruin ours.
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Own roof through the time
Own roof across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common