单词 | to hit home |
释义 | > as lemmasto hit home a. To affect the conscience, feelings, comfort, prosperity, etc. of (any one) in a way analogous to physical hitting; to affect sensibly, painfully, or injuriously; to smite, wound, hurt. to hit home: cf. home adv. 4. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > cause of mental pain or suffering > be painful or distressing to a person [verb (intransitive)] > make lasting painful impression to hit homec1480 to pierce one's stomach1509 sink (deep) into one's stomach1532 the mind > emotion > suffering > mental anguish or torment > cause of mental anguish or torment > be in anguish [verb (intransitive)] > cause pang to hit homec1480 society > morality > virtue > righteousness or rectitude > reform, amendment, or correction > repentance or contrition > repent (sin, wrongdoing, etc.) [verb (transitive)] > affect with remorse > prick, smite, etc., with remorse prickOE smitea1382 tanga1400 grudgec1460 to hit home1627 twinge1647 c1480 (a1400) St. George 110 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 179 Sad sorow sa cane hyme hit. 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid iv. xi. 22 Now art thou hit with frawart weirdis vnkynd. 1553 T. Wilson Arte Rhetorique (1580) 138 A merie man can want no matter to hitte hym home. c1565 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1728) 234 (Jam.) The chancellour..hearing the grose and ruid speach..thought he hat thame ovir near. 1627 R. Sanderson Ten Serm. 300 Christ hitteth him home, and presseth vpon his particular corruption. 1678 R. Barclay Apol. True Christian Divinity x. §17. 307 This Objection hitteth not us at all. 1733 A. Pope Impertinent 14 Chere Comtesse! you have Charms all Hearts to hit! 1861 J. Bright in Parl. Deb. 3rd Ser. 162 71 The noble Lord felt himself hit. 1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. II. xliii. 134 There is always a desire to hit companies, especially banks and railroads. 1938 Times 30 Apr. 11/4 Mr. Roosevelt says that the one lesson in events abroad that has ‘hit home’ is that ‘the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic State itself’. < as lemmas |
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