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What is the difference between Be my guest. and Make yourself at home. ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
What is the difference between Be my guest. and Make yourself at home. ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
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Make yourself at home is an invitation to a guest visiting your house to make themselves comfortable and settle in.
Be my guest is more like giving permission to someone to go ahead and help themselves to something that is yours. And that you don't mind. This can happen in any setting.
Friend "I really want to read that book you have!"
Me "Be my guest" (permission to read the book)
Friend "I'm hungry, can I have some of your chips?"
Me "Be my guest" (permission to have chips)
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- English (US)
Make yourself at home is an invitation to a guest visiting your house to make themselves comfortable and settle in.
Be my guest is more like giving permission to someone to go ahead and help themselves to something that is yours. And that you don't mind. This can happen in any setting.
Friend "I really want to read that book you have!"
Me "Be my guest" (permission to read the book)
Friend "I'm hungry, can I have some of your chips?"
Me "Be my guest" (permission to have chips)
:)
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“Be my guest” can be translated to “yes, go ahead”.
“Do you mind if I pour myself a glass of orange juice?”
“Be my guest”
“Make yourself at home” literally means act and make yourself comfortable as if it were your own home. Used genuinely or sarcastically based on tone.
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