keep house

Idioms  

1. Manage a household, especially do the housework. For example, It's difficult to find time to keep house when you work full-time. [c. 1600]

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Example Sentences

But I’ve learned — both the hard way and from KC Davis, author of “How to Keep House While Drowning” — that there are different kinds of care tasks at play here: cleaning, tidying and organizing.

From Salon

The first is what KC Davis, author of “How to Keep House While Drowning,” calls “closing duties.”

From Salon

I often return, in moments like this, to a line from KC Davis, the author of “How to Keep House While Drowning”: Care tasks are morally neutral.

From Salon

Davis’s “How to Keep House While Drowning,” I started practicing “closing duties.”

From Salon

Cleaning out your closet can feel emotionally charged, said KC Davis, a licensed therapist and author of “How to Keep House While Drowning: A Gentle Approach to Cleaning and Organizing.”

From Seattle Times

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