reckon without one's host

verb

Definitions

  1. To calculate one's bill without checking with the host or landlord

    To calculate one's bill without checking with the host or landlord; hence, to come to false conclusions, to miscalculate.

    • But hostess as she was herself, […] she reckoned without her host in the present instance.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for reckon without one's host. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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