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wear out one's welcome en · VERB

Pronunciation

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Meanings

1. (idiomatic) To behave in an offensive, burdensome, or tiresome manner, with the result that one's continued presence is unwanted within a residence, commercial establishment, or social group.
   • "Well, I don't aim to have no truck with you at all," blustered the fat man. "You've just naturally wore out yore welcome with me before ever you set down. I'll ask you to go right now." 1921, William MacLeod Raine, chapter 30, in Tangled Trails:
   • The pet, appropriately named Tiger, wore out his welcome very quickly. "Evidently Tiger was a real 'Conan the Destroyer' beastie," reports Harding. 2005 November 3, “Presidential Cat Tales”, in Time:
   • No: he feared to "wear out his welcome," he said: they had "seen enough of him for one while": […] 1889, Lewis Carroll [pseudonym; Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], Sylvie and Bruno, London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 224:

Forms

Antonyms

understay one's welcome

Relateds

fish and company stink after three days

Synonyms

overstay one's welcome · outstay one's welcome

Translations (8)

fi lakata olemasta tervetullut (to make one's presence unwanted) · hu visszaél a vendégszeretettel (to make one's presence unwanted) · pl nadużyć gościnności (to make one's presence unwanted) · es desgastar/sobrepasar la bienvenida/hospitalidad (to make one's presence unwanted) · es abusar/propasarse de la bienvenida/hospitalidad (to make one's presence unwanted) · de die Gastfreundschaft überbeanspruchen (to make one's presence unwanted) · ru злоупотреблять гостеприимством (to make one's presence unwanted) · pl nadużywać gościnności (to make one's presence unwanted)