Overstay or outstay one's welcome. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Most importantly they didn't outstay their welcome. From Wordnik.com. [FallNet - the creeping nobodies] Reference
I think we don't want to stay -- outstay our welcome. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 24, 2004] Reference
My blood and bones began to whisper he would outstay me. From Wordnik.com. [The King Must Die]
With this reservation: I'm not going to outstay my welcome. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Terry Sanford, August 20 and 21, 1976. Interview A-0328-2. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
But these guys don't outstay their welcome in the slighest. From Wordnik.com. [Music (For Robots): July 2005 Archives] Reference
At barely 300 pages, the book doesn't outstay its welcome either. From Wordnik.com. [Fat by Rob Grant] Reference
It must not only look pretty good but also not outstay its welcome. From Wordnik.com. [Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Creating a book trailer] Reference
The solos never outstay their welcome, and he never overcomplicates things. From Wordnik.com. [Keith Urban – Defying Gravity « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog] Reference
Alexi Travkin could outride, outdrink, outwork and outstay a man half his age. From Wordnik.com. [Noble House]
The flashback was somewhat pointless, but happily did not outstay its welcome. From Wordnik.com. [Lostwatch 2: Season 3, Episodes 7-15] Reference
Something else to consider, is that none of the songs on here outstay their welcome. From Wordnik.com. [Music (For Robots): September 2005 Archives] Reference
In the overheated days of August, it's even easier for visitors to outstay their welcome. From Wordnik.com. [Affordable Luxuries: Houseguest Gifts] Reference
He rode beside me white-faced, bleak and silent, wrought up only to outstay me, beginning to take. From Wordnik.com. [Seven Pillars of Wisdom] Reference
Theobald could not find an excuse to outstay his colleague, since they were both guests at the same house. From Wordnik.com. [The Daughters of Danaus] Reference
But still, Palazzi didn't wish to outstay his welcome-or give the old boy any reason to question his motives. From Wordnik.com. [Psychosphere]
Fugard's three-hander is wordy but meaty, and if it is inclined to outstay its welcome, it does so with grace. From Wordnik.com. [The Road to Mecca] Reference
She had to be careful not to outstay her welcome and she sensed she was nearing that point with her former student. From Wordnik.com. [The Narrows]
So never refuse an invitation, never resist the unfamiliar, never fail to be polite and never outstay your welcome. From Wordnik.com. [My last ever moment of confidence] Reference
Next week we are going to talk about the bed itself and where the guests should stay so they don't outstay their welcome. From Wordnik.com. [Sophie Keller: How Happy Is Your Home? 5 Tips To Better Sex And Sleep In Your Bedroom] Reference
It's not hard to read, but you do have to keep on your toes (although, at only 158 pages, it doesn't outstay its welcome). From Wordnik.com. [Only Joking by Gabriel Josipovici – review] Reference
Some films exhaust you out of sheer sensory overload or emotional experience, while others do so because they outstay their welcome. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-12-01] Reference
I feel like sometimes, columnists outstay their welcome, and that I want to be as fresh and as passionate and as on top of my form when. From Wordnik.com. [Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private] Reference
She could not outstay him in the rooms of his friend. From Wordnik.com. [The Incomplete Amorist] Reference
He tried to outstay Mr. Sherman last night, but he didn't manage it. From Wordnik.com. [Chronicles of Avonlea] Reference
"Yes, Olive, I intend to outstay you," he said, in answer to her glance. From Wordnik.com. [The Brentons] Reference
As he had entered the office first, it was in order for me to outstay him, which I did. From Wordnik.com. [The Supplies for the Confederate Army, how they were obtained in Europe and how paid for.] Reference
He had made up his mind to outstay the Widdowsons, who clearly would not make a long call. From Wordnik.com. [The Odd Women] Reference
I was anxious not to outstay his strength, and I kept my eye on the clock in frequent glances. From Wordnik.com. [Literary Friends and Acquaintance; a Personal Retrospect of American Authorship] Reference
Their two minute blasts of oblique punk passion twist and twine and never outstay their welcome. From Wordnik.com. [The Devil Has The Best Tuna] Reference
It was no custom of his to outstay other people; in fact, he usually went away comparatively early. From Wordnik.com. [The Head of the House of Coombe] Reference
Mommo could easily be made a little sleepier than usual, after being tempted to outstay the others. From Wordnik.com. [Whosoever Shall Offend] Reference
For even if they are minded to wait the throned Dawn, they shall not outstay me, so long enduring am I. '. From Wordnik.com. [The Odyssey] Reference
He would outstay the visitor; he would unmistakeably wait; to what had he been doomed for months past but waiting?. From Wordnik.com. [The Ambassadors] Reference
Good stories simply don't outstay their welcomes. today's economic recession, it even makes sense to stop by used-book stores. From Wordnik.com. [The Rap Sheet] Reference
Let us go for our usual stroll; and for all you it is time to be getting back to your place, if you are not to outstay your leave. From Wordnik.com. [Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 01] Reference
The scenes themselves are competently narrated, if a little wooden in their delivery, and at the very least never outstay their welcome. From Wordnik.com. [Pocket Gamer | www.pocketgamer.co.uk | Latest additions] Reference
There are also a handful of dogfight space missions, which nicely break-up the regular gun-toting action but never outstay their welcome. From Wordnik.com. [Tech Digest] Reference
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