come home

rentrer chez soi, revenir chez soi

Revenir à son domicile ou à l'endroit d'où l'on est originaire.

En anglais simple : 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?

Comment l'utiliser : 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.)

Synonymes : return home, get home

Contraires : leave home

Expressions courantes : come home late, come home from school, come home to someone

devenir clair, prendre tout son sens

Un fait devient très clair et l'on en comprend pleinement l'importance.

En anglais simple : 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.

Comment l'utiliser : come home to someone (The danger came home to me when I saw the damage.)

Synonymes : sink in, hit home

Expressions courantes : come home fully, come home suddenly

triompher dans son pays d’origine

Se dit pour célébrer le retour du succès d'un sport dans le pays où il est né.

En anglais simple : 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.

Expressions courantes : come home again, come home finally

chasser

L'ancre glisse sur le fond et ne maintient plus le bateau solidement en place.

En anglais simple : 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.

Synonymes : drag, slip

Expressions courantes : come home slowly, come home again