English / idiom

Make Yourself at Home

MEANING IN ENGLISH

To relax and make oneself comfortable in someone else's space.

In context

Please take off your heavy coat, sit on the sofa, and make yourself at home.

The host invited both feuding parties inside and urged them to make themselves at home.

Synonyms

feel comfortable,settle in,relax

Antonyms

stand on ceremony,feel out of place,be ill at ease

Collocations

please make yourself at home,come in and make yourself at home,encouraged to make themselves at home