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• An English person's home is a place where they may do as they please and from which they may exclude anyone they choose.

  ‘The message is: it's a free country, and an Englishman's home is his castle - just as long as you don't happen to live under the ridiculous rules of a Residents' Association!’

  More example sentences

  • ‘When I get back home… well, an Englishman's home is his castle, isn't it?’
  • ‘They will argue that it breaches one of the most basic rights of all: that an Englishman's home is his castle.’
  • ‘If an Englishman's home is his castle, his car must be his prized steed.’