under the same roof

idiom

: in the same house
They all live under the same roof.

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All these colorful celebrity tales under the same roof on the same February night in 1996, when Blanco was a greeter at Planet Hollywood's River Walk debut in charge of crowd control and security for some of the planet's most famous faces on and off the court. René Guzman, San Antonio Express-News, 4 Feb. 2026 The Pratt Street location, which operated under the same roof as a tattoo shop, was a full service cafe with 12 indoor seats and additional outdoor seating. Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 3 Feb. 2026 His paintings—his bathers—belong here, under the same roof as Cézanne’s bathers and Van Gogh’s sunflowers and Diego Rivera’s frescos. Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 24 Jan. 2026 If 50 people live under the same roof, sharing that cost burden of insuring that roof should be a fraction of the impact to individual homeowners. The Denver Post Editorial Board, Denver Post, 12 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for under the same roof

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“Under the same roof.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/under%20the%20same%20roof. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.

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