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household word

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household word
n.
A widely known saying, name, person, or thing: "It was an American journalist . . . who made [T.E.] Lawrence a household word" H.D.S. Greenway.
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I started when I saw the name, for it was that of none other than--well, perhaps even to you I had better say no more than that it was a name which is a household word all over the earth--one of the highest, noblest, most exalted names in England.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context
Would that I had some brighter ending to communicate to my readers, but these are the chronicles of fact, and I must follow to their dark crisis the strange chain of events which for some days made Riding Thorpe Manor a household word through the length and breadth of England.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context
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