Meaning of hit home | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To be especially memorable, meaningful, or significant; to be fully understood, believed or appreciated.
   idiomatic
2. To strike its target with damaging effect.

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Examples

“Do you think⟳ the message really hit home with him?”

“Baked goodies can really hit home with a crowd.”

“Which led me to publish⟳ it, to see⟳ if it hits home at all. Which, to me, is the point⟳ of the written word, the novels: Our desire to be reassured and read⟳ that, in all this, we're not alone.”

“This revised situation doesn't go well for poor old Nagato. Whilst curls of smoke⟳ and scorch marks along the hulls and superstructures of Washington and Alabama do tell⟳ of some Japanese shells hitting home, neither of them seem particularly perturbed by this. Instead, their fire begins to overhaul the Japanese battleship, and, sooner or later, another salvo of 16-inch shells - no one's quite sure whether it comes from Alabama or Washington - smashes into the base⟳ of the superfiring aft turret.”

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