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Reckoning without your Host

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To guess what your expenses at an hotel will be before the bill has been delivered; to enter upon an enterprise without knowing the cost.

We thought that now our troubles were over; … but we reckoned without our host.”—Macmillon’s Magazine, 1887.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Rebecca
Rebeccaites
Rebellion (The)
Rebus (Latin, with things)
Reception (To get a)
Rechabites
Receipt
Recipe
Reck his own Rede (To)
Reckon (I)
Reckoning without your Host
Reclaim
Recorded
Recreant
Rector
Reculer pour Mieux Sauter
Reculver
Red
Red
Red Basque Cap
Red Book