单词 | home turf |
释义 | > as lemmashome turf home turf n. = home ground n. ΚΠ 1864 Continental Monthly Jan. 54/2 He had one foot in the stirrup, and the other on the soft home-turf. 1916 Country Life in Amer. Jan. 31/2 Similar success on the polo field can be chronicled; not only on the home turf where every summer brings a long series of well contested matches. 1973 N.Y. Times 22 Feb. 29/1 ‘Jive’..is very daring. Daring quite simply because it challenges Jerome Robbins on his home turf. 2000 J. Goodwin Danny Boy i. 14 By the time the trusty Donny Dodger has carried me back to home turf, I can sense I'm losing it slightly. 2010 P. Daniels Class Actor xxix. 191 He was having to go all surreal and internal—which wasn't his home turf (or mine) by any stretch of the imagination. < as lemmas |
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