bring home

Definitions

1. 1

   To earn (money).

   • I bring home 10000 dollars a month.
2. 2

   To make clearer or better understood.

   • War is the greatest of all agents of change. It speeds up all processes, wipes out minor distinctions, brings realities to the surface. Above all, war brings it home to the individual that he is not altogether an individual.
   • This brought home the inadequacies of NIH policy regarding informed consent, as well as its continued reliance on the ethical judgment of its individual investigators.
3. 3

   Used other than figuratively or idiomatically

   Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bring, home.

   • When, in July, 1897, my father brought home the first number of The Railway Magazine, I little thought that, sixty years later, I should still be reading it, without having missed a single number.

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