bring home

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bring something home (to somebody)

to make something more clearly understood Her visit to the war memorial brought home to her the suffering the war had caused.

Usage notes: usually said about something that is difficult or unpleasant

Related vocabulary: hammer home something

See also: bring, home

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Collins having been in waiting near the lodges, to make them his parting obeisance, was able to bring home the pleasing intelligence, of their appearing in very good health, and in as tolerable spirits as could be expected, after the melancholy scene so lately gone through at Rosings. Pride and Prejudice by Austen, Jane View in context In the course of the morning a party of hunters set out in pursuit of buffaloes, taking with them a mule, to bring home the meat they should procure. The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U.S.A., in the Rocky Mountains and the far West by Irving, Washington View in context The next day sat Zarathustra again on the stone in front of his cave, whilst his animals roved about in the world outside to bring home new food,--also new honey: for Zarathustra had spent and wasted the old honey to the very last particle. Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book For All And None by Nietzsche, Friedrich View in context			bring bring a charge against bring a dog to heel bring a lump to throat bring a verdict in bring about bring all together bring along bring an amount of money in bring around bring away bring back bring back out bring back to life bring back to reality bring before bring crashing down bring down bring down a peg bring down a peg or two bring down on bring down to bring down to earth bring forth bring forward bring home bring home the bacon bring home to bring in bring in some place bring into action bring into being bring into blossom bring into contact with bring into disrepute bring into focus bring into line bring into play bring into prominence bring into question bring into service bring into the world bring into view bring it on bring off bring on bring on oneself bring one to oneself bring out bring out in droves bring out of			bring charges against bring crashing down bring discredit on bring disgrace upon bring disrepute upon bring down bring down bring down bring down a peg bring down a peg or two bring down about ears bring down about ears bring down about ears Bring Down Comfort Letter Bring Down Comfort Letters bring down on bring down the house bring down the house bring down the house bring down to bring down to earth bring forth bring forth bring forth Bring Forth the Corpse Bring Forth the Enemy bring forward bring forward bring forward bring from obscurity into view bring home bring home the bacon bring home the bacon bring home the bacon bring home to bring in bring in bring in bring in a supply bring in a true bill bring in a verdict bring in as a third party bring in contact bring in contact with bring in question bring in some place bring into bring into a small compass bring into accord bring into action bring into agreement bring into being bring into being bring into blossom bring into close connection bring into close relation bring into comparison bring into concord bring into conflict bring into conformity with law

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