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close to home

adv

Definitions

  1. Affecting people close to, or within, one's family circle.

  2. Affecting one personally through deep familiarity.

    • to hit close to home
    • […] when you laugh about people who feel so very lonely / […] I wish I could laugh / but that joke isn't funny anymore / it's too close to home / and it's too near the bone
    • Watching another icon's anguished passing was evidently far too close to home for him to comfortably endure.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for close to home. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA