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bring home to

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bring something home to someone
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.
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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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