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lives rent-free in someone's head

lives rent-free in someone's head is the third-person singular simple present indicative of live rent-free in someone's head.

Meaning of live rent-free in someone's head

Verb

live rent-free in someone's head (third-person singular simple present lives rent-free in someone's head, present participle living rent-free in someone's head, simple past and past participle lived rent-free in someone's head)

  1. (US, idiomatic, informal) To be the perpetual focus of someone's thoughts, with that person having no control over this situation.
    • Gem of the Day: Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent free in your head.1990 March 8, Ann Landers [Eppie Lederer], “Breast cancer is in her family”, in Daily American, volume 62, number 210, Somerset, Pa., page 12

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Lives rent-free in someone's head is the third-person singular simple present indicative of live rent-free in someone's head.

Words near lives rent-free in someone's head in the dictionary

  1. lives over the brush
  2. lives paycheck to paycheck
  3. lives paycheque to paycheque
  4. lives rent free in someone's head
  5. lives rent free in someone's mind
  6. lives rent-free in someone's head
  7. lives rent-free in someone's mind
  8. lives rough
  9. lives tally
  10. lives the dream
  11. lives through

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