come home
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.49 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To return to one's house, or to any place of origin.
verb
To drag or slip through the ground.
verb
To achieve success (typically by winning an international competition) in the country in which the sport was invented.
Example Sentences
- "Lion hunts are highly choreographed, rarefied affairs; you’re looking at $70,000 before you even load your rifle. Then there are the game fees for the bait you’ll need − a zebra, warthog and a kudu, say − and for the lion itself. All in, you’re looking at a six-figure outlay with no guarantee that you’ll come home with a lion skin for a rug. (Taxidermy not included.)"
- "It was only when I heard the police sirens that the seriousness of what I had done came home to me."
- "It finally came home to me that I was wrong."
Etymology
The sport usage was popularised by the 1996 song "Three Lions", which contains the phrase "it's coming home", referring to the UEFA Euro 1996 championship hosted in England, the birthplace of association football.