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What (who) is houseroom - definition
Houseroom
·noun Room or place in a house; as, to give any one houseroom.
houseroom
also house room
If you say that you wouldn't give something houseroom, you are emphasizing that you do not want it or do not like it at all. (mainly BRIT)
PHRASE: V inflects, with brd-neg [emphasis]
houseroom
¦ noun space in one's house.
Phrases
not give something houseroom Brit. be unwilling to have or consider something.
Examples of use of houseroom
1. And secondly (and one suspects this is more what troubled Iannucci) that a series which has so sublimely eviscerated Blair‘s way of doing business is given houseroom in Downing Street, as opposed to being deemed an abomination that should be outlawed in some kind of Spin Hatred Act.
2. England take on Sri Lanka at Lord‘s today still warmed by the fires kindled by last year‘s dramatic series Mike Selvey Thursday May 11, 2006 The Guardian The moment of truth has arrived for cricket in Britain, the time when the sport discovers whether the incredible renaissance of last summer – the relationship with the game developed by people in their millions, many of whom had not previously given it houseroom – is more than a one–night stand based on a massive collective outpouring of national euphoria.