stay home

idiom

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

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The designations helped the campaign figure out which kinds of ads would appeal to certain voters — and convince them to go to the polls or stay home. David Smiley, Miami Herald, 7 Nov. 2025 Across the service, rangers have been furloughed or forced to stay home, leaving huge swaths of the country’s most beautiful and vulnerable backcountry unprotected to visitors. Frederick Dreier, Outside, 7 Nov. 2025 Similarly, participants will withhold spending, streaming, eating out at restaurants, traveling and working and are asked to stay home during that time. Alex Perry, Cincinnati Enquirer, 6 Nov. 2025 Some threats were directed at schools serving as local polling sites, forcing some students to stay home. Zac Anderson, USA Today, 4 Nov. 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 15 Nov. 2025.

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