0 very worried about your house being completely clean and tidy, and spending a lot of time making it so
Hannah became too housebound, houseproud, too disciplined with the two children, too rigid, not seeing the wood for the trees.
His reaction — expressed, of course, with his usual elegance—reminded me of that of a houseproud householder looking at something nasty that the cat had brought in.
Where it was possible—it is not easily possible in the middle of a pile of rubble—the travellers were houseproud and tidy and clearly took care of the site.
They take great pride and they are houseproud.
If we impose a heavy tax on wallpaper we tax both cleanliness and the woman who is houseproud.
Most elderly people are houseproud, and it is certainly bad for their morale when conditions in the home deteriorate.
