not at home to
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[edit]not at home to (not comparable)
- Not being received as a guest at someone's house.
- 1930, Lennie Lower, Here's Luck, published 1980, page 85:
- To put it in the social jargon, I was merely not at home to Slatter. A loud and prolonged ringing of the door-bell proclaimed that he had found the right number.