part of the furniture
Always been there
Someone or something so long-established in a place that they seem to belong there permanently, like the fixtures themselves.
The phrase usually describes a person who has been around so long they're taken for granted: After twenty years at the company, Dave was part of the furniture.
It can suggest comfortable familiarity or, less kindly, irrelevance.
- fixtureAttached building component
- bedFurniture for slumber
- tableHorizontal furniture surface
- chairSingle-person sitting furniture
- couchUpholstered seating furniture
established · old hand · pillar · institution · entrenched · set in stone · accustomed · perennial · cornerstone · stalwart · mainstay · linchpin · integral · rooted · veteran · desk · familiar · household name
part of the furniturenewcomer
Recent arrival somewhere
new arrival · new kid on the block · newbie · fresh face · Johnny-come-lately
part of the furniturelike a sore thumb
conspicuous · standing out · center of attention · eye-catching · noticeable
part of the furnitureoutsider
One excluded from group
fish out of water · stranger · interloper · odd one out · misfit
parted, parting, partly, partial, partially, partiality, partake, partaker, particle