plural of Little League home run

(idiomatic) To consume so much of someone's store of food that little or none is left for the owner.

(figuratively) To cease participating in an activity that has turned to one's disadvantage, especially out of spite, or in a way that prevents others from participating as well.

Alternative form of take one's ball and go home

Past times which are fondly remembered are irrecoverably in the past and cannot be relived.

Rather than feeling nostalgic or sentimental, one should simply accept any place where one happens to reside as one's home.

Alternative form of take one's ball and go home

(chiefly US) A house is simply a physical structure and does not count as a home until significant events in the inhabitants' lives have occurred there over a substantial period of time, and they have developed an emotional bond to the house and its immediate environs.

Alternative form of it takes a heap of living to make a house a home

Alternative form of it takes a heap of living to make a house a home