get a room

intj

get a room

intj

Etymology Suggesting that the couple rent a hotel or motel room to continue amorous activities in private.

1

Humorous, Idiomatic, Informal, Sometimes Used to instruct a couple to stop displaying romantic or physical affection in public.

  • One night he kissed me on a park bench. I knew we shouldn’t but he would be gone so soon. The next night a homeless guy on a bench nearby hollered at us to get a room, but we couldn’t as we both had fierce landladies.2021 December 26, Alys Fowler, “My winter of love: I was homesick in New York. The quiet Danish poet was just what I was longing for”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 09 Jun 2022:
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