Idiom Of The Day #30
Alright guys your idiom of the day is "In the doghouse", which means "in a situation in which someone is annoyed with you because of something you did".
Origin: In Chapter 16 of Peter Pan, 1911, J. M. Barrie used a plot device in which the father of the family, Mr. Darling, consigned himself to the dog's kennel as an act of remorse for inadvertently causing his children to be kidnapped.
This appears to be an obvious source for the phrase "in the doghouse" and several etymologists have confidently stated it to be just that. But the expression doesn't appear in Peter Pan and that's hardly a surprise as in the UK dogs live in kennels. Doghouse is chiefly an American term and is rarely used in Scotland, where Barrie was born, or in England, where he was living when he wrote Peterpan.
The expression "in the doghouse" is first found in print in Criminalese, 1926, J. J. Finerty's glossary of the language of criminals: "In dog house, in disfavor" The phrase began to be used with its figurative meaning widely in the USA in the 1930s.
The origin of the phrase is more prosaic than the Peter Pan theory; it just refers to someone who is out of favour being sent out alone into the cold.
Inspirational post! You know what they say.. "To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart."
Thankyou dude!