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]
bring home
| Idioms: bring home |
| WordNet: bring home |
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The verb has 2 meanings:
Meaning #1:
make understandable and clear
Meaning #2:
earn as a salary or wage
Synonym: take home
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Mentioned in
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- Bring It on Home to Me + 3 [EP] (1965 Album by The Animals)
- Memories (1995 Album by Jimmy Edward)
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