live rent free in someone's head

present singular third person lives rent free in someone's head · participle present living rent free in someone's head · participle past lived rent free in someone's head · past lived rent free in someone's head

1. alternativeAlternative form of live rent-free in someone's head.

   Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent free in your head.

   2014, Doris M. Arwine, Sensitive to Listen and Willing to Obey, page 126

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   Hanging on to resentment is letting someone you despise live rent free in your head.

   1989, Yellowed Pages - Volumes 19-20, page 216

   If you take the bait, get mad at your friends, and begin to question yourself, you'll just have to live with your low self-esteem while they live rent free in your head.

   1999, Michael Gerrish, When Working Out Isn't Working Out, page 62

   Your ex will also stop living rent free in your head as you will start to see him as he truly is, not just as you see him.

   2013, Marina Pearson, Goodbye Mr. Ex, page 87

   And there's another benefit: That person is no longer living rent free in your head!

   2015, Joey Reiman, Thumbs Up!: Five Steps to Create the Life of Your Dreams, page 178

   For ten years, guilt had been living rent free in his head, maybe now there was a chance to evict it.

   2020, Jeremy J. E. Gordon, Our Star's Last Song, page 514