not at home to

English

Adjective

not at home to (not comparable)

  1. Not being received as a guest at someone's house.
    • 1930, Lennie Lower, Here's Luck, published 1980, page 85:
      To put it in the social jargon, I was merely not at home to Slatter. A loud and prolonged ringing of the door-bell proclaimed that he had found the right number.
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