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American Home Products, società americana con sede nel New Jersey e produttrice di prodotti biotecnologici

be close to home Idioma

at home

in one

bring home the bacon

bring home a paycheque, support a family Stan is disabled, so Louise brings home the bacon.

bring home the importance of something to someone

make someone fully realize something He was unable to bring home the importance of arriving early for the meeting.

charity begins at home

"first help the needy in your own community; then help others" If you want to help the poor, remember that charity begins at home.

chickens come home to roost

we cannot escape the consequences of our actions We soon discover that lies return to their owner, just as chickens come home to roost.

come home to roost

(See chickens come home to roost)

down home

simple but good, old fashioned Hey, Ma. I can't wait to taste your down-home cookin'.

drive it home

make a message clear, say it so they understand When you talk about safe sex, drive it home. Stress safety.

eat you out of house and home

eat all your food, pig out Our son's team came to dinner and ate us out of house and home!

get home

arrive at home, come home I'm going to bed when I get home. I'm sleepy.

be abutting to home

To affect one acutely and emotionally because one can acerb chronicle to it. My patient's lung blight analysis is abutting to home for me because my uncle afresh died of the aforementioned thing. Because I was afraid as a kid, I teared up back my son told me that he gets teased at school—it's aloof so abutting to home.Learn more: close, home

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get-go get going get good wood on get hell get high get him back get hold of (someone) get hold of (something) get home get in deeper get in my face get in on it get in on the ground floor get in the swing of things get in touch with someone get in your hair get into her pants be caught with (one's) pants down be caught with (one's) trousers down be caught with chaff be caught with your pants down be caught/taken short be center stage be certain be certain of (something) be certain that (something will happen or is the case) be chafing at the bit be chalk and cheese be champing at the bit be champing/chomping at the bit be chasing (one's) (own) tail be chasing rainbows be chasing tail be chasing your tail be child's play be chilled to the marrow be chomping at the bit be chucking (it) down be chuffed to bits be cleaned out be climbing the walls be close to (one's) heart be close to home be close to the bone be close to the mark be close to/near the mark be close/dear/near to somebody's heart be clued in be cocksure of (oneself) be coining it be cold comfort be coming apart at the seams be common knowledge be common/public knowledge be compos mentis be comprised of be conspicuous by (one's) absence be cooked be cooked to a turn be cooking on gas be cooking with gas be cornered be cracking on be crazy about (someone or something) be crook on be crook on (one) be cruel to be kind be crystal clear