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get a room en · INTJ

Pronunciation

Etymology

Suggesting that the couple rent a hotel or motel room to continue amorous activities in private.

Meanings

  1. (humorous, idiomatic, informal, sometimes) Used to instruct a couple to stop displaying romantic or physical affection in public.
    • One night he kissed me on a park bench. I knew we shouldn’t but he would be gone so soon. The next night a homeless guy on a bench nearby hollered at us to get a room, but we couldn’t as we both had fierce landladies. 2021 December 26, Alys Fowler, “My winter of love: I was homesick in New York. The quiet Danish poet was just what I was longing for”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 09 Jun 2022:

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Translations (4)

de nehmt euch ein Zimmer (used to instruct a couple to stop displaying physical affection in public) · fi hankkikaa huone (used to instruct a couple to stop displaying physical affection in public) · fi menkää pussauskoppiin (used to instruct a couple to stop displaying physical affection in public) · hu menjetek szobára (used to instruct a couple to stop displaying physical affection in public)