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home sweet home

idiom
Meaning

Expressing contentment or relief at residing in or returning to one's own home.


Examples
SIMPLE

I am so happy to be back at home sweet home.

CONTEXTUAL

After a long and exhausting trip across the country, walking through the front door felt like home sweet home.

COMPLEX

Returning from years of travel abroad, he finally stepped across the threshold of his childhood residence and whispered, home sweet home.

Anchors to
Related idioms8entries
  1. 01

    bring home

    To earn (money).

  2. 02

    bring home the bacon

    To have employment which provides remuneration to satisfy the basic needs of oneself and one's family.

  3. 03

    broken home

    A home in which the parents have separated or divorced.

  4. 04

    charity begins at home

    One should help the people closest to oneself before thinking of helping others.

  5. 05

    close to home

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

  6. 06

    come home by weeping cross

    To return in disappointment, or in a spirit of contrition.

  7. 07

    come home to roost

    To have negative consequences (of an action in the past).

  8. 08

    eat someone out of house and home

    To consume so much of someone's store of food that little or none is left for the owner.

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