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home in (on something)
1. to aim for and move directly toward something. When he questioned the witness, the lawyer homed in on him like a laser. The missile homed in on the ship.
2. to aim your attention toward something. The report homed in on the faulty wiring that might have caused the fire.
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At the end of my second year at Hampton, by the help of some money sent me by my mother and brother John, supplemented by a small gift from one of the teachers at Hampton, I was enabled to return to my home in Malden, West Virginia, to spend my vacation.
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.
Oh, you sit at home in your dark grey coat and your long tail,' said the Cat, 'and you get fanciful.
 
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