House
House verb - To provide with living quarters or shelter.
Settle down and house are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Settle down" instead a verb "House".
Settle down
Settle down verb - To become still and orderly.
House and settle down are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "House" instead a verb "Settle down".
Both terms in one sentence
- Yank the Dog's Chain: John Madson had just transferred to a lucrative job and had planned to settle down in Sugar Land with his wife Lucy, but the House had other ideas for them.
Source: Literature / The Dionaea House - This is deliberately shown in one strip, when Odie watches Jon, then Garfield, exit the house with a wicked smile...only to settle down in a smoking-jacket, pipe, in a plush recliner, watching a show on Classical music with a copy of War & Peace nearby.
Source: Obfuscating Stupidity / Comics -
When she brings him home with her, he is disconcerted to find that she lives in a mansion the size of the White House, that her brother's a drunk, and that her father expects him to settle down and become a respectable businessman.
Source: Film / Holiday
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