come home

To return to your house or the place you originally came from.

• Please come home soon.
• She came home late last night.
• When will you come home from school?

How to use it: come home from somewhere (She came home from work at six.); come home to someone/something (He came home to his family after months abroad.)

Similar words: return home, get home

Opposites: leave home

Common phrases: come home late, come home from school, come home to someone

If a fact becomes very clear to you, you fully understand it and feel its importance.

• The truth finally came home to me.
• Her words came home to him after the accident.
• Only then did the full cost come home to us.

How to use it: come home to someone (The danger came home to me when I saw the damage.)

Similar words: sink in, hit home

Common phrases: come home fully, come home suddenly

When a sport returns to success in the country where it began, people celebrate it this way.

• Will football ever come home?
• Fans hoped football would come home that summer.
• After the final, supporters sang that football had come home.

Common phrases: come home again, come home finally

If an anchor moves through the ground, it no longer holds a boat safely in place.

• The anchor began to come home.
• Our anchor came home during the storm.
• If the anchor comes home, the boat may drift.

Similar words: drag, slip

Common phrases: come home slowly, come home again