Return to your house; to touch one’s feelings or interest.
“No poetry was ever more human than Chaucer’s; none ever came more generally … home to its readers.”—Green: Short History of the English People, chap. v.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.