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White House

The presidential mansion in the United States. It is a building of freestone, painted white, at Washington. Figuratively, it means the Presidency; as, “He has his eye on the White House.” (See Whitehall.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894

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