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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. 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. Related vocabulary: hit homeUsage notes: usually said about something that upsets or embarrasses you, and often used with the verb hit as in the example 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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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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