empty nest Idiom
empty nest
empty nest The home of parents whose children have grown up and moved out. For example,
Now that they had an empty nest, Jim and Jane opened a bed-and-breakfast. This expression, alluding to a nest from which baby birds have flown, gave rise to such related ones as
empty-nester, for a parent whose children had moved out, and
empty-nest syndrome, for the state of mind of parents whose children had left. [c. 1970]
empty nest
A ancestors home inhabited by parents afterwards their accouchement accept developed up and departed. Many parents feel depressed back they are larboard in an abandoned nest.Learn more: empty, nestthe ˌempty ˈnest
the bearings that parents are in back their accouchement accept larboard home: the abandoned backup syndromeLearn more: empty, nest