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bring (one) home

To return one to one's residence. You were supposed to bring Jenny home by 10—her mother and I were worried sick! Please bring me home, I'm not feeling well.
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bring home

To cause something to be more intimately acknowledged, recognized, or understood (by someone). The doctor's lecture about lung cancer really brought home the dangers of smoking. Her passionate speech about the environment brought home the importance of conservation efforts.
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bring home

Get to the heart of a matter, make perfectly clear. For example, The crash brought home the danger of drinking and driving. This term uses home in the figurative sense of "touching someone or something closely." [Second half of 1800s]
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The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. Copyright © 2003, 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

bring home

To make perfectly clear: a lecture that brought home several important points.
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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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He was sent to a preparatory seminary in his father's dominions until he was ten years old, and was then despatched, in charge of a trusty messenger, to a finishing school at Athens; and as there was no extra charge for remaining during the holidays, and no notice required previous to the removal of a pupil, there he remained for eight long years, at the expiration of which time, the king his father sent the lord chamberlain over, to settle the bill, and to bring him home; which, the lord chamberlain doing, was received with shouts, and pensioned immediately.
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"It was so overwhelming to finally bring him home that as soon as I sat down with him, I just burst into tears - tears of joy, but I also felt scared as this baby was now our responsiblility."
'Robbie is our little angel - who we adore'
We ask for further help and information to bring him home for a proper burial Pat and us deserve."
Missing Pat's family in emotional plea as PS10k reward put up
THE heartbroken family of a father-of-two who went missing after a boating accident in Thailand are still working hard to find him and bring him home.
DESPERATE BID TO FIND MISSING MAN
A SERIOUSLY ill grandad stuck in a hospital in Benidorm could face a 24 hour road trip to bring him home.
24-hour road trip to bring sick man home; FAMILY TRYING TO RAISE PS11K TO GET SERIOUSLY ILL GRANDAD BACK FROM SPAIN BY ROAD AMBULANCE / Keith Arrowsmith who is in intensive care in Benidorm
However, following the sad news of his death, money is now being raised to help bring him home.
We want to bring James home to rest; Agony of mum whose son died after asthma attack
Repatriation to Ben Cooper has setup an online crowdfunding page in a bid home to raise the PS15,000 his family need to bring him home to Peterlee.
Talented 21-year-old footballer dies after accident in Amsterdam
"The US remains unwavering in our commitment to bring him home,"Nauert said, "We call on Iran to fulfill this commitment." The Federal Bureau of Investigations has offered a USD five million reward for any information that could lead to his safe return.
USD five mln. reward offered for info on CIA contractor whereabouts
February 9, 1958 -January 14, 2018 ORDER OF SERVICE The Hawthorns, Tuesday January 30, 2018 Family Procession Bring Him Home - Les Miserables Chris Love God on high Hear my prayer In my need You have always been there.
CYRILLE REGIS MBE
Glen Cockin "Although all the money in the world could never bring Glen back, it surely will bring him home.
1,000 rally round in tribute to tragic Glen; PS25,000 has been raised by kind-hearted fundraisers for the rugby player's family
The family of Tony Harries, who remains in hospital in Barcelona after being admitted with a respiratory disease in October, last week launched an appeal for help so they could bring him home to Wales to die.
Appeal to bring terminally-ill man back TOWALES to die
Now his family in Scotland are desperate to bring him home - and repay a kind stranger who tried to help him and paid PS1600 up front for his medical costs.
EX-SOLDIER BRIEN FIGHTS FOR HIS LIFE AFTER THAI HOTEL FALL; TRAGEDY SCOT HAUNTED BY WAR Family's appeal to bring him home raises more than PS7k
His parents are exhausted from their constant battle to bring him home.
OUR 500-MILE TRIP TO VISIT DISABLED SON
Claire told how she still had hope Ian would be found and would continue to search until she can bring him home.
Mum's fading hopes for her boy
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