Vijay sat there as if he owned the place..

Vijay walked in Peter’s den and waited for him as if he owned the place. This scene drives me bonkers!!!

No one doubts that spoken English is an extremely important skill today. It gets you good career, prestige, social respect and even, more money.

The beauty about trying to acquire great spoken English skills is that you don’t need to eat an elephant in one go (there, that’s another idiom – eating an elephant). Learn something everyday and very soon, you’d have impressive confidence and amazing spoken English skills.

In this post, we discuss the phrase – own the place.

Let’s look at some examples:

1. The local MLA walked into the DM’s office with 10-12 men as if he owned the place.
2. On his first day at the job, Sumit walked in as if he owned the place. Some people got scared of his confidence, some people thought it was rude and some people secretly admired him. But, everyone did notice him.

Own the place means doing something with such confidence as if you were the most powerful guy there (when you clearly are not). It is about being overly confident, being cocky and is sometimes used in a negative sense as well.

It’s pretty intuitive – when you are walking in the office as if you own the place, you are so confident and sure as if you are the owner. If someone is giving out the owner vibes – there you have it. As if he owns the place.

Let’s close with some more examples:

1. Don’t ever let anyone or any place make you feel small. Stand straight, look up and walk as if you own the place.
2. He came in, looked around, sat on the corner table, put his legs on the nearby sofa and signaled the waiter. It was as if he owned the place.
3. Two guys walked into the hotel as if they owned the place. They went straight to the room number 304 and knocked at the door. Then, without waiting for an answer, whipped out AK-47 rifles from under their jackets and started firing.