What does “rent free” mean?
Something lives rent free in your head when you can’t stop thinking about it, often for no good reason.
Where it comes from
From the older phrase “living rent-free in someone’s head,” for occupying their thoughts without paying. It became a meme in the late 2010s.
Rent Free in a sentence
- That video of the dancing goat lives rent free in my head.
- Clearly I live rent free in his mind; he keeps bringing me up.
Can you say it at work?
Yes, in casual talk. It’s one of the more office-friendly phrases.
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