go abroad and you'll hear news of home

proverb Once one is no longer at home, one becomes more interested or invested in news of home and family as it circulates second-hand. A: "Are you sure that Sir Gregory is selling the estate?" B: "Indeed. Go abroad and you'll hear news of home, my good man." I can't believe Marianne is engaged to that fool now that I've left the country. "Go abroad and you'll hear news of home," indeed. I know they say "go abroad and you'll hear news of home," but I really wish I'd heard more news of home while I was on the battlefield.

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