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a pox on both your houses

a pox on both your houses is the alternative form of a plague o' both your houses.

Meaning of a plague o' both your houses

Phrase

a plague o' both your houses

  1. Used to express displeasure at both sides of a pointless or long-running dispute.

Questions about a pox on both your houses

What is a pox on both your houses the alternative form of?
A pox on both your houses is the alternative form of a plague o' both your houses.

Words near a pox on both your houses in the dictionary

  1. A positive
  2. a posteriori
  3. a potiori
  4. a pound to a penny
  5. a pox on
  6. a pox on both your houses
  7. a priori
  8. a priorism
  9. a problem shared is a problem halved
  10. a promise is a promise
  11. a promise made is a promise kept

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Adapted from Wiktionary: a pox on both your houses (page history and authors); a plague o' both your houses (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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