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bring something home to someone 1. Lit. to return home with a gift for someone. I brought a box of candy home to the children. The candy was brought home to Lily by Ken. 2. Fig. to cause someone to realize something. My weakness was brought home to me by the heavy work I had been assigned to do. The hard work really brought my frailty home to me. bring something home to somebody to make someone understand something much more clearly than they did before, especially something unpleasant These photographs finally brought home to us the terrible realities of war. It took an international crisis to bring it home to British politicians that they desperately needed allies in Europe. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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"The great affair," I asked, "is to bring home to him the kidnapping? Coarse slander, fire, tar and feathers and the gibbet, the youth may freely bring home to his mind and with what sweetness of temper he can, and inquire how fast he can fix his sense of duty, braving such penalties, whenever it may please the next newspaper and a sufficient number of his neighbors to pronounce his opinions incendiary. Sometimes he takes the she with him and high among the branches divests her of the things he wishes to bring home to Meriem. |
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