Origin: In Chapter 16 of Peter Pan, 1911, J. M. Barrie used a plot device in which the father of the family, Mr. Darling, consigned himself to the dog's kennel as an act of remorse for inadvertently causing his children to be kidnapped. This appears to be an obvious source for the phrase “in the doghouse” and several etymologists have confidently stated it to be just that. But the expression doesn't appear in Peter Pan and that's hardly a surprise as in the UK dogs live in kennels. ⠀ Doghouse is chiefly an American term and is rarely used in Scotland, where Barrie was born, or in England, where he was living when he wrote Peter Pan. ⠀ The origin of the phrase is more prosaic than the Peter Pan theory; it just refers to someone who is out of favour being sent out alone into the cold. 🏡 @English_House 🏡