close to home
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.23 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
Affecting people close to, or within, one's family circle.
adv
Affecting one personally through deep familiarity.
Example Sentences
- "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."
Inflected Forms
closer to home (comparative)
closest to home (superlative)