in the doghouse
UK and US informalDefinition
› If you are in the doghouse, someone is annoyed with you and shows their disapproval: I'm in the doghouse - I broke Sara's favourite vase this morning.Humiliating and degrading
(Definition of in the doghouse from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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in the depth(s) of winter idiom
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Synonyms and related words:
- abase verb
- be under a cloud idiom
- bring/take sb down a peg (or two) idiom
- bruise sb's ego idiom
- cut sb down to size idiom
- deflate verb (WEAKEN)
- discredit noun
- discredit verb
- disgrace noun
- disgrace verb
- dishonour noun
- humiliated adjective
- humiliating adjective
- ignoble adjective
- ignominious adjective
- ignominy noun
- ruin noun
- shameful adjective
- shoddy adjective (NOT RESPECTFUL)
- stoop to sth phrasal verb
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Humiliating and degrading
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