| 单词 | home is where the heart is |
| 释义 | > as lemmashome is where the heart is P8. home is where the heart is and variants: the place with which one has the strongest emotional connection is the place that one regards as home. ΚΠ 1829 Mountaineer (Greenville, S. Carolina) 21 Feb. (title of poem) 'Tis home where the heart is. 1857 J. T. Bickford Scandal xxi. 235 ‘Describe me a home, Willie.’ ‘Well, I should say, a woman of Kate Bently's appearance—’ ‘Nay, I said not a wife, but a home.’ ‘Home is where the heart is, Katie.’ 1922 R. D. Paine Roads of Adventure xxxix. 398 This cheerful, kindly, gray-haired man and his motherly wife said they liked the desert. Perhaps it was because their faces hinted that home is where the heart is. 1976 Times 5 Aug. 7/7 Home is where the heart is, and we should be grateful to those who are prepared to put their hearts abroad for a while on behalf of the rest of us. 2009 C. Harrison Head over Heel 236 I found it interesting that, even after fifteen years, she still used the word ‘home’ to describe England rather than Italy. If home is where the heart is, it suggested hers lay elsewhere. < as lemmas |
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