2011年8月13日 · Collins has: stay-at-home countable noun: If you describe someone as a stay-at-home, you mean that they stay at home rather than going out to work or travelling. I've been using '[We'll] stay at home in case the post comes' etc for over 60 years; Collins also disagrees with your unsupported statement ('Home usually shouldn’t be used with at').

2014年10月14日 · If you are more aiming for someone who just doesn't want to be at home, instead of more specifically enjoying the outdoors, you could say that they get "stir crazy" if they spend too much time at home. (Feel bored, restless, …

2024年1月1日 · When it looks as if you had made up your mind finally to stay at home for the evening . . . (Willa and Edwin Muir) When you seem to have finally made up your mind to stay home for the evening . . . (Joachim Neugroschel) If in the evening you seem to have decided once and for all to stay at home . . . (Joyce Crick)

2014年6月11日 · Apparently, home in go home can be used without a preposition because it is the remnant of an earlier form that fused preposition (to) and noun, and when this type of inflection for case disappeared from English, this particular usage continued, with the to-home form standardising with the base noun. We don't have "I'm going school".

2018年2月13日 · "Will stay" and "will be staying" can be used interchangeably; there is only a subtle difference. "Will" is more simple, more in the immediate present and less flexible ("I will stay right here!"),"Will be staying" implies the future, and is more flexible ("I will be staying at his house while I look for a new place to live.")

Let's say you are talking to me. "I’d rather you stayed at home tonight" hints that you hope the stayed at home part comes from me. You hope that I want to stay home. The form is uncommon in the US. "I'd rather have you stay at home" says that you want my company at home. The directness makes it very American.

I won't [=will not] have dinner at home, lol. The correct answer should be: Neither will I. But: I'm not [=am not] in a mood to go out for dinner tonight. Neither am I. I think I'll just stay home. Another option that works for both examples is "me neither." I won't have dinner at home, lol. Me neither. And. I'm not in a mood to go out for ...

2019年7月1日 · In the old days, the cry in the joints, when they were ready to close, was “you don’t have to go home, but you can’t stay here.” 1 January 1948, Morning Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA), “A Correspondent’s Notebook” by Hal Boyle, pg. 4-A, col. 4 The sign said: “You don’t have to go home—but you can’t stay here. Happy New Year!”

2015年4月6日 · stay-at-home person. Christian Living Seven Days a Week - Page 121 Jack Mcinturff - 2007 . a traveler, then this will not work unless the traveler becomes a person that is perfectly content to stay home or travel less, or the stay-at-home person learns to enjoy traveling.

I suspect that this idiomatic usage arose out of the earlier usage of to "put up" in the sense of "set up, establish, pack, store, or provide," as exemplified by testimony from Isaiah Look, in Investigation into the Charges of Mismanagement and Cruelty at the Soldiers' and Sailors' Home, Bath, New York" (1883): Q.