on the house

Idioms  

1. At the expense of the establishment, as in This hotel serves an afternoon tea that's on the house. This idiom uses house in the sense of “an inn, tavern, or other building serving the public.” [Late 1800s]

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Example Sentences

Congressman Suhas Subramanyam, who is ranking Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, told the BBC that if the former prince did "nothing wrong, then he should clear his name".

From BBC

"No one connected to Jeffrey Epstein will escape accountability for their crimes," Democrats on the House Oversight Committee wrote on social media after Mountbatten-Windsor's arrest.

From BBC

“Did she say her parents are making an offer on the house today? They don’t own it already?”

From Literature

Mr. Khanna this week used his congressional privilege to expose on the House floor names of six “elite, powerful men” redacted in the Epstein files by the Justice Department.

From The Wall Street Journal

“The president has been seriously limited by the new reality that any tariff he puts on is now exposed to a privileged motion on the House floor so long as they are done via IEEPA,” Treyz says.

From Barron's