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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.

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"The great affair," I asked, "is to bring home to him the kidnapping? Kidnapped by Stevenson, Robert Louis View in context 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. Essays, First Series by Emerson, Ralph Waldo View in context Sometimes he takes the she with him and high among the branches divests her of the things he wishes to bring home to Meriem. The Son Of Tarzan by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context			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 out of mothballs bring out of shell			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 bring home bring home 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 bring into connection with bring into consistency

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