| 单词 | close to home |
| 释义 | > as lemmasclose (also near) to home P10. close (also near) to home: (figurative) so as to affect one personally; (so as to be) unsettlingly applicable to oneself. ΚΠ 1889 Southern Dental Jrnl. 8 70 The next thought, gentlemen, comes closer to home... Are we armed, equipped and ready to impart the knowledge and properly instruct the people? I am afraid not. 1905 Sunset Feb. 430/2 Our satiro-parodist strikes the reading public very close to home, dealing out quips and quizzes without favor or fear. 1959 Boston Daily Globe 24 June 22/8 I wonder, too, if the picture of the young people of Japan searching for something to believe in,..was not, also, rather close to home. 1978 Times 12 Aug. 13 It [sc. the Liberal party] has nothing of importance to say to anyone if it starts fine tuning on its basic principles when they come a little too near to home. 2001 J. A. Brown Black Superheroes, Milestone Comics, & their Fans iv. 123 The negative stereotypes..that some of the older readers..feel hit rather close to home at times. < as lemmas |
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