close to home

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Idioms and Phrases

Also, where one lives . Affecting one intimately and personally, as in That description of orphans really was too close to home , or The teacher's criticisms of her work got her where she lives . The noun home here means “the heart of something,” a usage dating from the late 1800s; the variant was first recorded in 1860. Both of these colloquialisms are sometimes preceded by hit , that is, something is said to hit close to home or hit one where one lives , as in That remark about their marriage hit close to home . Also see too close for comfort (to home) .

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For Neidi Dominguez, executive director of workers' rights group Organized Power in Numbers, this year's May Day action hits especially close to home.

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The disease hits close to home for Burke, whose father also has Parkinson’s; he was caring for him during the shoot.

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Spring Break on Panama City Beach, Daytona, or even among the throngs of rowdy teenagers close to home never appealed.

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That sounds a bit too close to home as President Trump deports and detains people using that same tough-on-crime talk without evidence, while Vice President JD Vance argues online that due process is just too cumbersome and needs to be scrapped for convenience if the United States is to be successful, as Trump has promised, at deporting millions of people in the next few years, whether they are criminals or not.

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So the fact that it’s small has hit very close to home.

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