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A visitor whose welcome has a timer nobody admits to starting.
means Someone staying or visiting in a place that isn't theirs, present by invitation rather than by right.
from From Old English 'giest,' tracing back to a Proto-Germanic root shared with words for stranger, and further back to a Proto-Indo-European root that also gave Latin 'hostis' — meaning stranger or enemy, and source of both 'host' and 'hostile.' So guest and hostile are old cousins: the same ancient idea split into the person you welcome and the person you fight, a reminder that the stranger at the door was never fully trusted.
- etymology twist
- guest and hostile share the same Latin root
- day three rule
- fish and guests both smell by then
- power shift
- the host obeys, the guest only visits