Meaning of bring home | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To earn (money).
   idiomatic, transitive
2. To make clearer or better understood.
   idiomatic
3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bring, home.

Examples

“I bring home 10000 dollars a month.”

“War is the greatest of all agents of change. It speeds up all processes, wipes out minor distinctions, brings realities to the surface. Above all, war brings it home to the individual that he is not altogether an individual.”

“The economics of rebuilding all the stations covered by the electrification would be prohibitive, but to help bring home to the Glasgow public that their North Clyde suburban service has been transformed, not merely re-equipped with new trains, stations have at least been associated psychologically with the rolling stock by a common colour scheme.”

“This brought home the inadequacies of NIH policy regarding informed consent, as well as its continued reliance on the ethical judgment of its individual investigators.”

“This incident really brings home the whole question of access, the point of entry for people into observing or seeing art at that kind of level.”

“This was brought home to me, an NT, when I asked an autistic E-mail correspondent, who is mordantly expressive on line, what it would be like to meet.”

“It really brings home the amount of deprivation you lived through, and it's very common for grief to come up like this.”

“Both the UK and Europe have experienced record summer temperatures in the past couple of years, which have brought home the fact that climate change is happening.”

“When, in July, 1897, my father brought home the first number of The Railway Magazine, I little thought that, sixty years later, I should still be reading it, without having missed a single number.”

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