house-trained en · ADJ
Meanings
- (not-comparable, of a pet) Trained not to excrete indoors.
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(broadly, not-comparable) Exhibiting behavior and habits that are consistent with good housekeeping.
DeSantis picks cultural fights that are sometimes warranted but more often exhausting. Yet each man will seem at least house-trained compared with recent leaders of their party.
2023 August 8, Janan Ganesh, “The oneness of Ron DeSantis and Rishi Sunak”, in Financial Times:But he did have the endearing habit of cleaning up after she cooked, and unlike other men of her acquaintance the dishes were actually clean when she went to get them out of the cupboard again. Johnny was house-trained, too.
1999, Dana Stabenow, Hunter's Moon, →ISBN, page 112:
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es entrenado (trained not to excrete indoors) · hu szobatiszta (trained not to excrete indoors) · de stubenrein (trained not to excrete indoors) · es limpio (trained not to excrete indoors) · fi sisäsiisti (trained not to excrete indoors) · ru приу́ченный к лотку́ (trained not to excrete indoors) · fr propre (trained not to excrete indoors) · es aseado (trained not to excrete indoors) · fr dressé (trained not to excrete indoors) · sv rumsren (trained not to excrete indoors) · nl zindelijk (trained not to excrete indoors)