单词 | near home |
释义 | > as lemmasnear home c. near home: near one's house, neighbourhood, country, etc. Frequently figurative: close to one's own affairs or concerns; affecting, or so as to affect, one closely or personally. Cf. close (also near) to home at Phrases 10. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting a type of place > [adverb] > nearer one's own dwelling place near home1525 the world > relative properties > relationship > [adverb] > intimately or closely > closely connected with near home1525 genuine to1659 hand and glove1774 the world > relative properties > relationship > [adverb] > intimately or closely > into close contact near home1525 home1532 1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. cx. f. cxxiiiv/2 Nowe I wyll speke of matters nerer home. 1565 T. Harding Confut. Apol. Church of Eng. i. v. f. 13v To come neare home, Ioan of Kent that filth, who tooke forth a lesson further then ye taught her (I trowe) or yet preach, was she a syster of yours? 1577 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. (1878) iii. ii. ii. 13 Peradventure we might haue found the same neerer home. 1657 S. Purchas Theatre Flying-insects xxv. 166 No wonder if hee were a stranger abroad that was ignorant of Countries near home. 1667 N. Fairfax Let. 5 Dec. in H. Oldenburg Corr. (1967) IV. 14 I doubt ye busines lyes deep nearer home. 1709 Refl. Sacheverell's Serm. 22 The Dr. ought to look nearer home. 1791 Gentleman's Mag. Mar. 217/1 That village, which, I am persuaded, would afford much gratification to the Antiquaries, as perhaps it has been a path untrodden by being too near home. 1819 London Lit. Gaz. 25 Sept. 622/1 To turn a Scot into ridicule is coming too near home, it might by a ricochet, and by a recoiling action, light upon himself. 1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) III. 167 There are whole countries too, such as India, or, nearer home, Ireland. 1925 B. Vanzetti Let. 31 July in Lett. Sacco & Vanzetti (1997) ii. ii. 166 The picture of the moccasin flowers are beautiful. I saw and plucked some on a hill near home in Plymouth, Mass. 1954 C. P. Snow New Men iv. xxviii. 206 ‘Don't you like extravagant people?’ she asked. ‘Yes,’ I said. ‘Unless it comes too near home.’ 2009 H. Mantel Wolf Hall ii. ii. 69 Nearer home, his own sister Margaret..divorced her second husband and remarried. < as lemmas |
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