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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
Norris said: "A tough race. I made too many mistakes. A messy race from me. Disappointed not to bring home a one-two for McLaren."
She would bring home surgical tubing, tubs, gauze and other stuff for him and his siblings to play with.
"He's going to bring home the bacon," he said from the Oval Office, "even though bacon isn't too big in Israel. I had to clear that up."
In recent weeks, powerful voices have joined the fight to bring home Israel's remaining hostages - those of the captives released during the latest ceasefire deal that began in January and lasted two months.
Clearly, when Max elevates the game so much, you need to nail laps in qualifying and you need to bring home any possible millisecond.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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