come home to someone or something
- come home to someone or something
come home to someone or something
to arrive home and find someone or something there. (See also
come home to someone.) •
I like to come home to a happy house.
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I look forward to coming home to you.
Dictionary of American idioms.
2013.
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come home to someone — come home to (someone) if something comes home to someone, they understand it clearly. It suddenly came home to me that I had made the most awful mistake … New idioms dictionary
come home to someone — come home (to (someone)) to become completely clear to someone. The reality of his loss finally came home to him. Usage notes: usually said about something that is difficult or unpleasant Related vocabulary: hit home, strike home … New idioms dictionary
come home to — (someone) if something comes home to someone, they understand it clearly. It suddenly came home to me that I had made the most awful mistake … New idioms dictionary
come home to someone — (of the significance of something) become fully realized by someone the full enormity of what was happening came home to Sara … Useful english dictionary
come home to — come home (to (someone)) to become completely clear to someone. The reality of his loss finally came home to him. Usage notes: usually said about something that is difficult or unpleasant Related vocabulary: hit home, strike home … New idioms dictionary
come home — (to (someone)) to become completely clear to someone. The reality of his loss finally came home to him. Usage notes: usually said about something that is difficult or unpleasant Related vocabulary: hit home, strike home … New idioms dictionary
someone's chickens come home to roost — or something comes home to roost used for saying that bad actions or mistakes from the past have unpleasant results in the present It s only now that the real problems in London are coming home to roost … English dictionary
someone's chickens come home to roost — someone’s chickens come home to roost something comes home to roost phrase used for saying that bad actions or mistakes from the past have unpleasant results in the present It’s only now that the real problems in London are coming home to roost.… … Useful english dictionary
something comes home to roost — someone s chickens come home to roost or something comes home to roost used for saying that bad actions or mistakes from the past have unpleasant results in the present It s only now that the real problems in London are coming home to roost … English dictionary
chickens come home to roost — phrase used for saying that the bad results of something someone has done are starting to happen or to become clear After years of borrowing, the government’s chickens are coming home to roost. Thesaurus: unpleasant results and effectssynonym… … Useful english dictionary
home — [hōm] n. [ME < OE hām, akin to Ger heim < Gmc * haim < IE base * kei , to lie, homestead > HIDE3, Gr keisthai, to lie down, rest, L civis, townsman, ON heimr, home, Goth haima, OHG heim: basic sense “place where one lies; dwelling”] 1 … English World dictionary