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leave home

idiom
Meaning

To stop living with one's parents.


Examples
SIMPLE

He plans to leave home when he turns eighteen.

CONTEXTUAL

Many young people feel nervous and excited when they finally leave home to start university.

COMPLEX

After years of living under his parents' roof, he decided it was time to leave home and forge his own path in the city.

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 and leave no crumbs

    Synonym of eat (“to be very good at something; to rule; to rock”).

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