Meaning of close to home | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Affecting people close to, or within, one's family circle.
   idiomatic
2. Affecting one personally through deep familiarity.
   figuratively

Examples

“to hit close to home”

“[…] when you laugh about people who feel so very lonely / […] I wish I could laugh / but that joke isn't funny anymore / it's too close to home / and it's too near the bone”

“Watching another icon's anguished passing was evidently far too close to home for him to comfortably endure.”

“Smiling, Pichai said he never watched the popular show [Silicon Valley]. “Too close to home,” he remarked. “You watch TV to relax.””

“Friends warned me against watching Baby Reindeer, the hit Netflix series about the comedian Richard Gadd and “Martha”, the character based on his alleged real-life stalker. It was too close to home, they said.”

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