doghouse
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- n outbuilding that serves as a shelter for a dog
- n an idiomatic term for being in disfavor
in the doghouse
- The hero, we sense, is a country boy (the name Duane, and the implication that there is enough vacant acreage behind the doghouse so that stray bullets won't perforate anything .
- New York's Mayor William O'Dwyer, another doghouse tenant in pre-convention days, also had slipped back into the family.
- After five decades in the doghouse, Jerry Lewis collects his gold statue.