the call is coming from inside the house
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.80 in modern English
55
Scrabble Score
33
Letters
8
Syllables
16
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The government has blamed the recent unrest on foreign agitation, but they'll soon realize that the call is coming from inside the house."
- "The groundwork of Trumpism was laid not by foreign tinkering or stratospheric inequality but in the barbed souls of young white men coming of age in the 1990s. The call is coming from inside the house."
- "As the New Yorker recently put it, the impactful IRA narrative may be an “overly convenient” explanation for our home-grown problems and: What if, to borrow an old horror-movie trope, the call is coming from inside the house?"
- "But this is no takeover: the call is coming from inside the house. What folks call “alt-Right” simply names a spirit lurking in American conservatism."
- "In contrast to accounts that see the changes of the 1970s as something “done to” the state by outside actors, whether intellectual movements or political interest groups, in this story the call is coming from inside the house."
- "But what stands out most right now is that it is a region marked by growing dissatisfaction with their provincial governments as well. With western alienation, the call is coming from inside the house."