Ex. 1. Read and translate the following text. Chickens come home to roost

Synonyms

Chickens come home to roost

Bring home the bacon

Home free

a. assured of finishing, accomplishing, succeeding, etc.: If we can finish more than half the work today, we’ll be home free.

b. certain to be successfully finished, accomplished, secured, etc.: With most of the voters supporting it, the new law is home free.

write home about, to comment especially on; remark on: The town was nothing to write home about. His cooking is really something to write home about.

a. to provide for material needs; earn a living.

b. to accomplish a task; be successful or victorious: Our governor went to Washington to appeal for disaster relief and brought home the bacon—$40 million.

The fact that chickens usually come home to rest and sleep has long been known, but the idea was used figuratively only in 1809, when Robert Southey wrote, “Curses are like young chickens, they always come home to roost” (The Curse of Kehama).

1. abode, dwelling, habitation; domicile, house

2. hearth, fireside

3. asylum

Unit 2. What is the difference between “home” and “house”?

A house is a building or structure that has the ability to be occupied for dwelling by human beings or other creatures. The term house includes many kinds of dwellings ranging from rudimentary huts of nomadic tribes to free standing individual structures. In some contexts, "house" may mean the same as dwelling, residence, home, abode, lodging, accommodation, or housing, among other meanings. The social unit that lives in a house is known as a household. Most commonly, a household is a family unit of some kind, though households can be other social groups, such as single persons, or groups of unrelated individuals. Settled agrarian and industrial societies are composed of household units living permanently in housing of various types, according to a variety of forms of land tenure. English-speaking people generally call any building they routinely occupy "home". Many people leave their houses during the day for work and recreation, and return to them to sleep and for other activities. A growing point of interest is the energy consuption of a house; while many houses in Japan have no insulation at all, in Europe from 2018 all houses built should have no energy consumption at all.

home

1. a house, apartment, or other shelter that is the usual residence of a person, family, or household.

2. the place in which one's domestic affections are centered.

3. an institution for the homeless, sick, etc.: a nursing home.

4. the dwelling place or retreat of an animal.

5. the place or region where something is native or most common.

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