man of the house

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noun

the male head of a household.

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Origin of man of the house

First recorded in 1900–05

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Man of Sorrows, man of straw, man of the cloth, man-of-the-earth, man of the hour, man of the house, man of the moment, man of the world, man-of-war, man-of-war bird, man-of-war fish

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In the first episode, an officer is shown video of himself shooting and killing a man.
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France 24 is providing live, round-the-clock coverage of both scenes as they progress.
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That man was Xavier Cortada, a gay man who wrote of his frustration that he and his partner of eight years were unable to marry.
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It is the summit of human happiness: the surrender of man to God, of woman to man, of several women to the same man.
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But no more so than the Sodexo building maintenance man or the two cops who were also killed in the crossfire.
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It was a decayed house of superb proportions, but of a fashion long passed away.
Checkmate|Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Davy looked around and saw an old man coming toward them across the lawn.
Davy and The Goblin|Charles E. Carryl
The supernaturalist alleges that religion was revealed to man by God, and that the form of this revelation is a sacred book.
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The most High hath created medicines out of the earth, and a wise man will not abhor them.
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He remembered something—the cherished pose of being a man plunged fathoms-deep in business.
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