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come home (to someone)

to become completely clear to someone. The reality of his loss finally came home to him.

Usage notes: usually said about something that is difficult or unpleasant

Related vocabulary: hit home, strike home

See also: come, home

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If on the other hand you hear of his death, come home at once, celebrate his funeral rites with all due pomp, build a barrow to his memory, and make your mother marry again. The Odyssey by Homer View in context Simpson had come home in time to move his wife and children back to the town that had given them birth, a town by no means waiting with open arms to receive them. Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm by Wiggin, Kate Douglas View in context "He is at the New Hospital," said Rosamond; "I am not sure how soon he will come home. Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context More results

References in classic literature

If on the other hand you hear of his death, come home at once, celebrate his funeral rites with all due pomp, build a barrow to his memory, and make your mother marry again.

The Odyssey by Homer View in context

Simpson had come home in time to move his wife and children back to the town that had given them birth, a town by no means waiting with open arms to receive them.

Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm by Wiggin, Kate Douglas View in context

"He is at the New Hospital," said Rosamond; "I am not sure how soon he will come home.

Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context

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