{"id":72779,"date":"2019-11-08T05:23:32","date_gmt":"2019-11-08T05:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=72779"},"modified":"2019-11-08T05:23:32","modified_gmt":"2019-11-08T05:23:32","slug":"be-in-the-dog-house-english-idioms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/be-in-the-dog-house-english-idioms\/","title":{"rendered":"Be In The Dog House | English Idioms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Be in the dog house<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To be in the dog house is to be in real trouble or to be in someone\u2019s disfavour. A dog house is a small hut meant for keeping dogs. To put someone in the dog house is to punish them by treating them like dogs.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>John can\u2019t stay out of trouble. He is always in the dog house.<\/li>\n<li>He was in the dog house after forgetting his wife\u2019s birthday.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Be out of the dog house<\/h3>\n<p>To be out of the dog house is to save oneself from trouble.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>She won\u2019t be out of the dog house until she pays the dues.<\/li>\n<li>I couldn\u2019t submit my assignment before the deadline and now I\u2019m in the dog house with my professor.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The expressions get in the dog house and find oneself in the dog house also mean the same.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He missed many deadlines and put himself in the dog house.<\/li>\n<li>She put herself in the dog house by being late for the conference.<\/li>\n<li>The minister\u2019s secretary got in the dog house over some controversial remarks she made to the press.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Be in the dog house To be in the dog house is to be in real trouble or to be in someone\u2019s disfavour. A dog house is a small hut meant for keeping dogs.&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[1834,1835,1836],"class_list":["post-72779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-idioms","tag-be-in-the-dog-house","tag-be-out-of-the-dog-house","tag-dog-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72780,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72779\/revisions\/72780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}