stay home

idiom

chiefly US
: to not go out for an activity
Let's stay home tonight.

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Same-store sales at its US locations fell 3.6% — the chain’s worst drop since the height of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 when people were told to stay home. Jordan Valinsky, CNN Money, 12 May 2025 Cedric Tomes, a 6-foot guard from East Ridge High School, chose to stay home at the U over offers from Iowa State, Oklahoma, Drake, Northern Iowa and Bryant. Andy Greder, Twin Cities, 11 May 2025 But economists said that was at least in part because of harsh winter storms that hit Southern states in January, causing many shoppers to stay home. Ben Casselman, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2025 Three families with transgender children face an impossible choice in states banning gender-affirming care: stay home and risk their children’s well-being or uproot entirely. Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 16 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for stay home

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“Stay home.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stay%20home. Accessed 28 May. 2025.

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