wear out one's welcome

wear out one's welcome
wear out one's welcome
Fig. to stay too long (at an event to which one has been invited); to visit somewhere too often. •

Tom visited the Smiths so often that he wore out his welcome.

At about midnight, I decided that I had worn out my welcome, so I went home.

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{v. phr.}, {informal} To visit somewhere too long or come back too often so that you are not welcome any more. * /The Smith children have worn out their welcome at our house because they never want to go home./ * /This hot weather has worn out its welcome with us./

Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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  • wear out one's welcome — {v. phr.}, {informal} To visit somewhere too long or come back too often so that you are not welcome any more. * /The Smith children have worn out their welcome at our house because they never want to go home./ * /This hot weather has worn out… …   Dictionary of American idioms

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  • wear out one's welcome —    If someone wears out their welcome, they stay too long as a guest, causing inconvenience to their host.     Alan and Sue invited us to stay on for a few days but we didn t want to wear out our welcome …   English Idioms & idiomatic expressions

  • wear out one's welcome — verb To behave in an offensive, burdensome, or tiresome manner, with the result that ones continued presence is unwanted within a residence, commercial establishment, or social group. No: he feared to wear out his welcome, he said: they had seen …   Wiktionary

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  • wear out one's welcome — visit too often …   English contemporary dictionary

  • welcome — [wel′kəm] adj. [ME welcume, altered by assoc. with wel, WELL2 (as if transl. of OFr bien venu) < wilcume < OE wilcuma, orig. n., a welcome guest < willa, pleasure, WILL1 + cuma, guest < cuman, to COME] 1. gladly and cordially received …   English World dictionary

  • welcome — welcomeness, n. welcomer, n. /wel keuhm/, interj., n., v., welcomed, welcoming, adj. interj. 1. (a word of kindly greeting, as to one whose arrival gives pleasure): Welcome, stranger! n. 2. a kindly greeting or re …   Universalium

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