Learning Common English Phrases - Make Yourself at Home meaning

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Hi there. Welcome to Harry's World of Words and Phrases and English in a
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Minute. We're coming back to the topic of everyday English. English we use everyday
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and as I've said before there's not a real correlation or connection between
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the words but these are phrases we use in English all of the time. Let me give
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you another example - make yourself at home. Okay. So you don't want somebody to
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come into your house and live there or stay there longer than you wish but we
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say this for guests when they come into our house to make them relax. So make
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yourself at home, have a cup of tea. You have a cup of coffee, something to eat.
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Okay. We can also use it in our office because we say make yourself at home
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even though it's not the home. It's the actual office. So sit down and relax and
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we talk about whatever you wish to talk about. And occasionally we use and make
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yourself at home in a sarcastic way. So let's take the example where you come
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into your office and there's somebody already sitting there drinking coffee
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with their feet up. You say: "well make yourself at home, why don't you?" Okay. So
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