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bring home
Idioms and Phrases
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]Example Sentences
Once she’s in, she’ll snoop for hard evidence of Fred’s infidelity, something he wouldn’t dare bring home with him in case Nancy gets eyes on it.
Last November, his niece said that his body "needs to be brought home".
They said she had moved from Poland to the UK in 2010 and had worked in a warehouse in Wellingborough to bring home money for her family.
Ms Brannigan said she had gone to see her daughter after she had been brought home with the help of the Kevin Bell Repatriation Trust.
They missed out on a medal in France, but India's only other visually impaired female athlete to qualify for Paris, sprinter Simran Sharma, did make it to the podium, bringing home a bronze.
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