get a room

English

Suggesting that the couple rent a hotel or motel room to continue amorous activities in private.

(idiomatic, informal, sometimes humorous) Used to instruct a couple to stop displaying romantic or physical affection in public.
- 2021 December 26, Alys Fowler, “My winter of love: I was homesick in New York. The quiet Danish poet was just what I was longing for”, in The Guardian‎:
  One night he kissed me on a park bench. I knew we shouldn’t but he would be gone so soon. The next night a homeless guy on a bench nearby hollered at us to get a room, but we couldn’t as we both had fierce landladies.

used to instruct a couple to stop displaying physical affection in public

Finnish: menkää pussauskoppiin (especially for kissing), hankkikaa huone (uncommon)
German: nehmt euch ein Zimmer (not very much used)
Hungarian: menjetek szobára

Tony Thorne (2014) “get a room”, in Dictionary of Contemporary Slang, 4th edition, London, […]: Bloomsbury

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