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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