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/Sounds like "REHNT" (as in "red") + "FREH" (as in "fresh") + "eh" (as in "egg")/

Meaning

When something or someone lives in your head without paying rent, you can't stop thinking about it no matter how hard you try. It's that obsessive thought loop you just can't break.

Examples

That song is living rent free in my head all week.

Your ex is living rent free in your brain, let it go.

Regional synonyms

To be the different or problematic member of a group, usually a family, the one who doesn't fit the expected mold. In the Río de la Plata region, the black sheep isn't always wrong, just different from what everyone else wanted them to be.