Willies were just like the slave-owners who outlawed tradi- tional African religions. Note: Neither expression correlates in meaning with the phrase Holy Moses—(exclam.) used to express strong feelings of aston- ishment, pleasure, or anger: Copland was astonished to see things he had not looked at for over sixty years. “Holy Moses !” he exclaimed, “I kept everything!” Holy Roman Empire, the • Roman Empire, the Holy Roman Empire, the—the Western part of the Roman Empire as revived by Charlemagne in A.D. 800: Francis II put an end to the Holy Roman Empire by his abdication in 1806. Roman Empire, the—that established by Augustus in 27 B.C. and divided by Theodosius in A.D. 395 into the Western or Latin and Eastern or Greek Empire: Christianity floated into the Roman Empire on the wave of credulity. home boy • house-boy home boy—1. a boy who is fond of staying at home: A lone- some little English home boy was playing his mouth organ softly in the dusk. 2. (U.S. coll.) a man from one’s hometown or neighborhood: Like many of her home boys and girls who left the state to search for something else, she came back. 3. (U.S. Underworld) a street kid; a member of a teenage gang: Some 30,000 “home boys ,” or gang members roam, pretty much at will in Los Angelos County. house-boy—a (usually native) boy employed as servant in a house: That’s my houseboy ; he has an unpronounceable name, so I call him John. home ground • home zone home ground—1. the area where smb. lives; one’s familiar surroundings: Students benefit by experiencing interviews with prospective employers on their own home ground . 2. an area of smb.’s special strength or competence: Obviously Scorsese has done moderately well with other types of films but contemporary urban crime is his home ground . home zone—streets specially designed to meet the interests of pedestrians and cyclists: Home Zones work through the physical alteration of streets. These alterations force motorists to drive with greater care and at lower speeds. Home Guard, the • National Guard, the Home Guard, the—(UK) a volunteer force formed to defend a homeland while the army is fighting elsewhere: Those who could not serve in the Army signed up as Local Defense Vol- unteers in what became known as the Home Guard . National Guard, the—(U.S.) the volunteer forces of each state, which the governor can summon in an emergency, such as civil disorder, etc.: According to reports, the National Guard was called in to help evacuate residents affected by a storm. home-keeping • housekeeping home-keeping—1. looking after the house (managing the cleaning, cooking etc.): Marriage is more difficult because you must agree on home keeping , child rearing, dealing with in- laws…. 2. (attrib.) said of smb. keeping at home; home-stay- ing: I’m very good mixer but I don’t like noisy groups; I’m a home-keeping person. housekeeping —1. = home-keeping 1: This position is respon- sible for housekeeping duties and preparing the evening meal for our seniors. 2. (U.S. attrib.) of a rented holiday cabin or cottage furnished with cooking facilities, etc.: We had booked “a house-keeping suite” without knowing what that was…. 3. short for “housekeeping allowance”: You’ll go throwing your money around but if I ask you for a bit more housekeeping , that’s a different story. home phone • house phone home phone—a telephone at a person’s place of residence: “This was intercepted yesterday afternoon on the Milettis’ home phone ,” the magistrate explained. house phone—a telephone connected to the switchboard of a building but not directly to the exchange: The lighted button was his private line, not his house phone . Everyone understood that his private line was used only for important business. homecraft • housecraft homecraft—an art or craft pursued in the home: Clock pro- duction was part of the homecraft of the peasant people of Dalarna province in Sweden. housecraft—the art of managing a house; skill in domestic duties: The girls did housecraft activities such as cleaning and cookery and also studied typing. homestay • stay-at-home homestay—a visit to smb.’s home in a foreign country (often a stay by an exchange student): As Howell discovered during her homestay , much of the education in a study abroad pro- gram takes place beyond the classroom. stay-at-home—1. said of smb. preferring a quiet domestic life to traveling or leading a busy social life: Thoreau was such a stay-at-home that he refused to go to Paris lest he miss some- thing of interest in Concord. 2. said of smb. staying or working at home: I’m a stay at home mother of two young girls. I have very little time that I can call my own. honor-man • man of honor honor-man—(also: honors man) a person obtaining an “hon- ors degree” from a university, etc.: He entered Queens Uni- versity at Kingston, Ontario, and again was honor man of his class in anatomy. man of honor —a person with a reputation for loyalty, truth- fulness, etc.: Are you or are you not willing to act like a man of honor to protect your own good name, the family name, the name of this child… honorary degree • honors degree honorary degree—a degree conferred by the university, etc. as an honor, without the usual requirements: I got an encour- agement out of the blue in the form of an honorary degree from Berlin. honors degree—a degree conferred by the university, etc. requiring some specialization and a high level of attainment: Applicants should preferably be of honors degree standard, with interest in magnetic devices. honors of war • military honors honors of war—privileges granted to a capitulating force: The French troops shall file out with all the honors of war , with arms and baggage, to the outside, where they will lay down their arms. military honors—the external marks of respect paid by troops to royalty or high military or civil officials: The allied troops rendered military honors to the departing commander- in-chief. hook, line, and sinker • lock, stock and barrel hook, line, and sinker—accept or believe smth. completely or without reservation (usually in the phrase “swallow something hook, line, and sinker”): You must not swallow hook, line and sinker all that you have been told or read. lock, stock and barrel — taking or including everything: Look- ing back it is hard to believe that we actually moved lock, stock and barrel to the other side of the world. 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