housetop
Idioms about housetop
from the housetops, publicly; generally: The day I got my promotion I wanted to shout it from the housetops.
Origin of housetop
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How to use housetop in a sentence
Once more, and at greater peril than ever, Jack went on the housetop to reconnoitre.
Jack Harkaway's Boy Tinker Among The Turks | Bracebridge HemyngLet him sit with me here any night on my housetop and he will see the sad effects of sectarian reform and newspaper hysteria.
The Onlooker, Volume 1, Part 2 | VariousAgain he dived at it, like a hawk after a pigeon, and again he zoomed up over the housetop.
The Flying Reporter | Lewis E. (Lewis Edwin) TheissAnd again, how with the short gun I slew a pigeon on a housetop and tore the head from its body?
Where the Pavement Ends | John RussellLooking down from a housetop the red fezzes and the gay-colored abas made the crowd look like a vast field of poppies.
War in the Garden of Eden | Kermit Roosevelt
British Dictionary definitions for housetop
/ (ˈhaʊsˌtɒp) /
the roof of a house
proclaim from the housetops to announce (something) publicly
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