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close to home

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close to home
Fig. affecting one personally and intimately. Her remarks were a bit too close to home. I took her review as a personal insult.
See also: close, home

close to home
having a direct personal effect on you Her novel about a teenager's drug addiction hit a little too close to home for my taste.
Usage notes: usually said about something that upsets or embarrasses you, and often used with the verb hit as in the example
Related vocabulary: hit home
See also: close, home


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Yes, it's better in some ways, because it's close to home and circuses and all that.
He was close to home - home, where he had thought, at that hour, to be sitting in the well-remembered drawing-room in friendly converse; and, instead - !
 
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