单词 | to come home to |
释义 | > as lemmasto come (also get, go) home to a. to come (also get, go) home to: to touch, affect, or move intimately; to become clear or manifest to; to come as a realization to. Also occasionally with on, among. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > effect produced on emotions > have an effect on [verb (transitive)] gravec1374 bitec1400 rapt?1577 infecta1586 to come (also get, go) home to1625 to screw up1644 strike1672 strikea1701 impress1736 to touch up1796 to burn into1823 knock1883 hit1891 impressionize1894 1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) Ded. Duke of Buckingham sig. Aiiiv I doe now publish my Essayes; which, of all my other workes, haue beene most Currant: For that, as it seemes, they come home, to Mens Businesse, and Bosomes. 1660 R. Boyle New Exper. Physico-mechanicall Pref. 16 He has already provided, that this piece shall..be done into Latine, that so it may come home to divers worthy Persons. 1713 R. Steele Englishman No. 48. 313 Applause must never come quite home to them. 1769 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) I. xvi. 111 There is no precedent in all the proceedings..which comes entirely home to the present case. 1823 New Monthly Mag. 9 106/2 It..comes home to the heart with a refreshing and harmonizing power. 1862 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia III. xii. xii. 377 That Walpole will probably be lost, goes much home to the Royal bosom. 1866 Galaxy 15 Aug. 730 All at once it had come home to her that this love was to be hurled back upon her heart; that the man beside her had been merely trifling with her. 1931 Punch 4 Nov. 496/1 Yet we have to admit that these songs ‘get home’ on us: that, singing them, we become as little children. 1957 R. Hoggart Uses of Literacy (1959) 139 It was in the latter half of the last century..that the effects of these changes first came home forcefully to the bosoms of working-class people, in the extension of the franchise. 1958 Church Times 29 Aug. 3/4 I know that a lot of this will not get home among those who do not want to resolve discord. 1999 A. S. Fink & J. Press Independence Park 292 At that point I think it came home to me how nasty I had been. < as lemmas |
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