| 单词 | call home |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto call (a person) home Phrases P1. In adverbial phrases. a. at home. (a) At or in one's house or abode. Also in figurative contexts.Cf. at-home adj. Additions, stay-at-home adj. and n. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > [adverb] > home > at home at homeeOE in1572 homec1580 to home1795 eOE (Kentish) Charter: Oswulf & Beornðryð to Christ Church, Canterbury (Sawyer 1188) in F. E. Harmer Sel. Eng. Hist. Docs. 9th & 10th Cent. (1914) 2 Of higna gemęnum godum ðaer aet ham, mon geselle cxx gesuflra hlafa to aelmessan. OE West Saxon Gospels: Luke (Corpus Cambr.) ix. 61 Læt me æryst hit cyþan þam ðe æt ham [OE Lindisf. æd ham, OE Rushw. æt huse; L. domi] synt . c1175 ( Ælfric Homily (Bodl. 343) in S. Irvine Old Eng. Homilies (1993) 22 Min cnapæ lið æt ham al on paralisim. a1225 (c1200) Vices & Virtues (1888) 79 Hie sitteð at ham and ne hauen ðarof non Ȝeswink. ?a1300 Iacob & Iosep (Bodl.) (1916) l. 64 (MED) Þis breþren wendeþ afeld to witen here fe, Ac Iosep leuede at hom. c1300 St. Margarete (Harl.) l. 180 in O. Cockayne Seinte Marherete (1866) 29 Þe were betere habbe bileued atom. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1872) IV. 289 Þere were meny men þat hadde at home [?a1475 anon tr. at their places; L. domi] suche bookes. 1484 W. Caxton tr. Subtyl Historyes & Fables Esope 11 A lytyl catte which she hadde at home. ?1504 W. Atkinson tr. Thomas à Kempis Ful Treat. Imytacyon Cryste (Pynson) i. xx. 168 To byde at whome. 1509 Kynge Rycharde Cuer du Lyon (de Worde) sig. A.vv At home ne dwelled neuer one On forfeyture on lyfe and londe. 1573 J. Sanford tr. L. Guicciardini Hours Recreat. (1576) 220 When the Catte is not at home, the Myce daunce. a1625 J. Fletcher Wit without Money (1639) v. sig. H3 Charity and beating begins at home. 1667 S. Pepys Diary 12 July (1974) VIII. 333 My wife in a dogged humour for my not dining at home. 1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 24. ⁋6 The Misfortune of never finding one another at home. 1775 E. Foot Diary in L. Ulrich Age of Homespun (2001) vi. 219 I stay'd at home & finish'd Molly's Worsted Stockings and fix'd two Gowns for Welch's Girls. 1796 C. Burney Mem. Life Metastasio I. 70 A sure sign that your head is at home. 1820 W. Irving Sketch Bk. (new ed.) I. 39 There is still a little world of love at home, of which he is the monarch. 1824 J. Carey Lasting Impressions I. xix. 366 You have a good memory, when it's at home: but you give it lave of absence now and then. 1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop i. vi. 112 There was only Mrs. Quilp at home. 1923 G. S. Mason in B. C. Williams O. Henry Prize Stories 1923 (1924) 159 This was her evening at home with her unstimulating family. 1971 ‘G. Charles’ Destiny Waltz vi. 245 I've tried to convey to you a little of what his life was like as a boy. It hadn't altered much. He was still living at home. 2008 P. Hensher Northern Clemency 571 If it was raining as hard as this in Tottenham, then Harold would have stayed at home; he wouldn't be out causing trouble. (b) In one's own neighbourhood, town, region, or country; in one's native land; opposed to abroad. Also: in the country of one's ancestors, in the mother country (see note at sense A. 5). ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > a land or country > [adverb] > in or to native land at homeeOE homeOE down home1857 on the home front1917 eOE tr. Orosius Hist. (BL Add.) (1980) i. x. 30 Hie heora here on tu todældon; oþer æt ham beon heora lond to healdanne, oðer ut faran to winnanne. OE Ælfric Old Test. Summary: Maccabees (Julius) in W. W. Skeat Ælfric's Lives of Saints (1900) II. 120 Þa englas..heton hine cyðan, on his cyððe æt ham, Godes wundor on him. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 3543 Illc mann shollde cumenn ham. Inn till hiss aȝhenn birde. Forr þær to reccnenn till þe king. An pening..& tatt mann shollde hiss name þær. Att hame o write settenn. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 1219 Guendoleine he sende into hire fader londe..Þa wæs Guendoleine at hame [c1300 Otho atom]..heo hit mænde to alle monnen. a1350 in R. H. Robbins Hist. Poems 14th & 15th Cent. (1959) 9 (MED) Betere hem were at home in huere londe Þen forte seche flemmysshe by þe see stronde. c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 514 He..dwelte at hoom, and kepte wel his foolde. c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) l. 148 Men of his burȝ..he by-hind him at hame withoute hede leuyd. c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 9337 Oure buernes..þat might haue leuet in hor lond, as lordes at hame. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward IV f. cxcvv That he then myght do at his pleasure, bothe at home and in outward parties. 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III i. i. 136 No newes so bad abroad as this at home . View more context for this quotation 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. 9 The most ancient Lawgivers, got the experience, by which they had rule in their Cities, not by secure study at home, but by adventurous travels abroad. 1678 N. Wanley Wonders Little World v. i. §93. 467/2 Unfortunate in his Wars at home and abroad. 1751 in J. F. Hageman Hist. Princeton (1879) I. 59 The administration of his Excellency..has been disadvantageously represented to the ministry at home. 1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations II. iv. ii. 52 A capricious man of fashion might sometimes prefer foreign wares..to cheaper and better goods of the same kind that were made at home. 1861 T. Gilbert N.Z. Settlers & Soldiers 33 The..cliffs of Mokau..call to mind the chalk cliffs of dear old England—Beachy Head, and other favourite localities at ‘home’. 1873 C. Robinson New S. Wales 105 To all who are struggling to get on at home and yet can hardly keep their heads above the water..we say..come out to this Land of Plenty. 1884 Daily News 5 Feb. 4/8 Everything..done by the Government at home and abroad. 1908 E. J. Banfield Confessions of Beachcomber i. ii. 77 Australians cannot with justice complain when the good old folks at home blunder..the while..so much local misapprehension prevails. 1969 B. Rubens Elected Member iv. 47 And suddenly, others had become like him, as it was at home, with the same clothes and language, with the same shops, the same struggle. 1971 Ebony Aug. 51/1 Blacks should stay where they are and improve conditions at home. We should not seek to escape by fleeing to other regions of the country. 2009 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 7 June (Travel section) 8/3 You can buy Italian wines abroad for much less than at home. (c) (i) At ease as if in one's own home; in one's element; familiar or conversant with; well versed in.Cf. at-home n. Derivatives. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > physical comfort > [adverb] softOE at likinga1398 commodiously1420 beinly?a1500 at home1531 in sufficiencec1550 softly1567 snugly1590 easefully1611 comfortably1634 cosily1721 lown1724 snug1766 lownly1788 tosh1808 comfily1917 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > knowledge, what is known > familiarity > [adjective] > knowing about, familiar with craftyOE slyc1175 coutha1225 well acquainteda1250 privyc1300 cunningc1325 well-groundeda1438 acquainted?a1439 familiar1509 at home1531 overseen1533 intelligent1546 long-experienced1567 conversant1573 skilful1596 accomplished1603 frequent1609 well (better, best) verseda1610 understanding1612 sound1615 studieda1616 technical1617 versed1622 conversing1724 versant1787 on intimate habits1809 special1830 inquainted1849 pre-acquainted1907 sophisticated1952 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > knowledge, what is known > familiarity > [adverb] couthc1000 familiarly1387 homelya1400 at home1841 c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Huntington HM 137) (1873) C. xi. l. 28 (MED) He [sc. Dowel] ys nat alway at hom among [Vesp. a-tom wiþ] ȝow Freres. 1531 W. Tyndale Answere Mores Dialoge f. lvii The mayde was at home also in heuenly pleasures. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Richard III f. xxxjv In his custodye, where he might recon hym self at home. 1677 Earl of Orrery Treat. Art of War 15 More at home, and at ease, and safety. 1787 ‘G. Gambado’ Acad. Horsemen 32 Supposing you are now at home enough on horseback, to ride out alone. 1798 F. Asbury Jrnl. 18 Jan. (1821) II. 368 I went from the place where I had stayed six weeks, and had received every mark of affection, to brother Drumgold's, ten miles. I felt at home here also. 1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop i. vi. 114 That kind of acting had been rendered familiar to him by long practice, and he was quite at home in it. 1878 R. B. Smith Carthage 376 In politics he does not seem to have been at home. 1885 J. Ruskin Præterita I. v. 171 More at home on the hills than in the counting-house. 1908 R. Bagot Anthony Cuthbert xxiii. 293 She had evidently learned the language from servants and was, therefore, not quite at home with her h's. 1974 B. Friel Freedom of City i. 56 If you ask me he's more at home with the hooligans, out throwing stones and burning shops! 2008 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 6 Jan. (Oscars Suppl.) 26/1 When a day player or a supporting actor comes on the set, one of her jobs is to welcome them and make them feel at home. (ii) to make oneself at home: to behave as if in one's own home; to make oneself comfortable; to settle in. Frequently in the imperative as an injunction to guests. ΚΠ a1602 W. Perkins Cloud of Faithfull Witnesses (1607) (Heb. xi. 9) 205 Abraham made himselfe a stranger at home to auoide Idolatry; but they will make themselues at home in a strange Country, to intangle themselues in Idolatry. 1786 tr. P. J.-B. Legrand d'Aussy Tales 12th & 13th Cent. I. 93 Lay down your hat, and take a seat. I desire you will make yourself at home. 1842 Bentley's Misc. July 12 According to the worthy man's hearty invitation, I proceeded to make myself and my companions at home. 1860 W. Gordon Dearest Mamma 11 Pray make yourselves at home, gentlemen. 1944 M. Laski Love on Supertax viii. 77 Make yourself at home, and I'll just wet the tea-leaves. 1952 Good Housek. (U.S. ed.) Dec. 127/1 When we arrived there all the guys was already making themselves at home in the living room. The joint was jumping. 2002 I. Knight Don't you want Me? ii. 26 ‘Righty-ho,’ says Felicity in her jolly Sloane tones. ‘That's the intros over and done with. Make yourself at home, Stella.’ (d) Prepared to receive visitors; available to callers or a particular caller. Frequently used as a formula for inviting company to an informal reception. Now chiefly historical.Cf. at-home n., not at home adv. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > social event > visit > visitor > [adverb] > prepared to receive visitors in1572 at home1691 1691 W. Mountfort Greenwich-Park i. iii. 10 Be courteous to all Men; borrow of most Men, and pay no Man; always at home to their Whores, and ever abroad to their Creditors. 1752 H. Fielding Amelia IV. xi. iii. 147 His Wife soon afterwards began to keep an Assembly, or in the fashionable Phrase, to be at home once a Week. 1760 C. Johnstone Chrysal II. i. i. 7 Turning to the footman, ‘I thought, sirrah (said she), that I was not to be at home this evening!’ 1850 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis II. iii. 28 The Marchioness of Steyne would be at home to Mr. Arthur Pendennis upon a given day. 1880 Etiq. of Good Soc. 103 In the country a bride's first appearance in church is taken as a sign that she is ‘At home’. 1883 J. Hatton in Harper's Mag. Nov. 830/2 The President makes it a point to be ‘at home’ on Sunday afternoons. 1927 E. A. Robinson Tristram vi. 111 If you were anyone else alive I might not always be at home to you, Or to your bland particularities. 1972 G. Holden tr. É. Zola Nana 318 She gave him to understand that he must never come in the morning, but only between four and six in the afternoon..because that was when she was at home to visitors. 1991 M. Johnston Houston (1994) 111/2 Mrs. Rufus Cage, Mrs. E. W. Hutchinson, Mrs. R. E. Bering, and Mrs. J. M. Bering all chose to be at home on Wednesdays. Mrs. Charles Dillingham was at home on Thursday. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > cribbage > [adverb] > score at home1791 1791 ‘A. Pasquin’ Treat. Cribbage iii. 68 He is certainly at home if he makes his next deal within fifteen points of the game. 1796 C. Jones Hoyle's Games Impr. 294 By attending to the above Calculation any Player may judge whether he is at Home or not. 1837 G. Walker Cribbage Player's Text-bk. vi. 89 The non-dealer being so nearly at home for his next deal, may break his hand, in order to throw a powerful baulk into his adversary's crib. 1877 Encycl. Brit. VI. 577/1 Each player ought to reckon slightly over six in hand and play and five in crib, or seventeen and a half in two deals to be at home. A player who scores more than the average and leaves his adversary six or seven points in arrear is safe at home. When at home it is best to play off; when the adversary is safe at home it is best to play on. (f) Sport. On a team's own ground, or in their own region or country. Sometimes with to and the name of the opposing team. Opposed to away. Cf. sense B. 4. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > match or competition > [adverb] > home or away home-and-home1751 at home1833 home and away1885 away1890 on (also upon) the road1968 1833 New Sporting Mag. Sept. 326 The first match Dorset won—‘at home’. 1869 Times 25 Sept. 4/6 The custom is to play the rules of the club upon whose ground the game is played, and the consequence is that the club playing at home generally wins. 1898 Football Tel. (Kettering) 1 Jan. 3/2 Last season,..a splendid victory was achieved at home, the locals winning by 2 goals to 0. 1930 Daily Tel. 5 Dec. 20/3 Clapton Orient, ‘at home’ to Luton Town at Highbury. 1958 Baseball Digest Aug. 72/1 The third-place Phillies of 1900 won 45 and lost only 23 at home, while compiling a poor 30-40 mark while away. 2001 C. Glazebrook Madolescents 210 The red and white scarves mean the Magpies are playing at home to Sunderland. 2010 Calgary (Alberta) Sun (Nexis) 22 June s11 Mexico is better but South Africa is at home, and the point in the standings will jazz the host nation. (g) colloquial. when it's (also he's, she's, etc.) at home: used in interrogative phrases expressing (frequently scornful) doubt or a query about the identity of a person or thing. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > [noun] > action of expressing contempt > vocally > specific utterance > in phrase expressing doubts about identity when it's (also he's, she's, etc.) at home1845 1845 C. Lever St. Patrick's Eve 95 ‘And who is Mr. Lucas when he's at home?’ said Owen, half-sneeringly. 1888 R. Kipling Taking Lungtungpen in Plain Tales from Hills 99 You..dimonstrate to my frind here, where your frinds are whan they're at home? 1889 Jrnl. Jurispr. 33 631 ‘And what room is this when it's at home?’ inquired Binks. 1930 J. B. Priestley Angel Pavement ii. 64 ‘And we can't all look like Mr. Ronald Mawlborough either.’ ‘Who's he when he's at home?’ Mr. Smeeth inquired. 1960 R. Collier House called Memory viii. 112 Peachy? I have no idea what you mean. What's that when it's at home? 2001 J. Coe Rotters' Club (2002) 142 ‘Quick and easy crossword’. I ask you! I mean, what's a ‘condition of perfect bliss’, when it's at home? b. from home. (a) Away from one's house or abode; not at home; abroad. Now somewhat archaic. [Quot. 1573 shows a misapprehension of Italian di casaccio ‘at random’ ( < di de prep. + casaccio randomness, haphazardness (a1541; < caso case n.1 + -accio , suffix forming nouns with pejorative connotation)), as if derived < casa house (see casino n.).] ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > [adverb] > home > at home > not outOE from homec1225 afield1483 c1225 (?c1200) Sawles Warde (Bodl.) (1938) 4 Ne bið neauer his hus for þeos hinen wel iwist for hwon þet he slepe oðer ohwider from hame [Royal fare from hame], þet is hwen mon forȝet his wit. c1300 St. Katherine (Harl.) l. 177 in C. D'Evelyn & A. J. Mill S.-Eng. Legendary (1956) 539 (MED) Þemperour fram home was afare. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1871) III. 461 We beeþ nouȝt at home in þis worlde, but from home and gistes; we come nouȝt to dwelle here, but to wende hens. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 3350 Ysaac was not fra hame. c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) l. 461 Now hafe I..all to lange lengid fra hame. 1526 C. Mery Talys f. xiiv Sirra I vnderstand that thou dost ly euery night with with my wyfe when I am from home. 1573 J. Sanford tr. L. Guicciardini Hours Recreat. (1576) 223 I come from home [It. vengo di casaccio], that is, I neither winne nor lose. 1618 J. Taylor Pennyles Pilgr. in Wks. (1883) 27 Her husband being from home. 1672 R. Townley Let. 15 Aug. in H. Oldenburg Corr. (1973) IX. 212 I have of late beene so much from home yt I could not attend ye successe of my water bellows. 1738 S. Johnson London 225 Sign your will, before you sup from home. 1796 J. Moser Hermit of Caucasus I. 238 He was continually from home, running from one house to another. 1816 J. Wilson City of Plague ii. ii. 15 I have been kept from home, beyond my promised hour. 1886 M. W. Hungerford Green Pleasure & Grey Grief III. vi. 113 Having run away from home. 1886 R. L. Stevenson Strange Case Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde 23 ‘You will not find Dr. Jekyll; he is from home,’ replied Mr. Hyde. 1946 D. Du Maurier King's Gen. iv. 37 It showed want of delicacy to come here asking to see me when my brothers are from home. 2003 N. Barr Flashback (2004) 318 For young men not long from home there was no person more reassuring than a woman their mothers' age. ΚΠ 1740 H. Bracken Farriery Improv'd (ed. 2) II. ii. 77 You are never from Home, if you have such a Horse under you. 1870 T. Purnell in C. Lamb Compl. Corr. & Wks. I. p. xxiv He was from home with formal and conventional people. The friends he most cherished were men who had some individuality of character. c. near home: near one's house, neighbourhood, country, etc. Frequently figurative: close to one's own affairs or concerns; affecting, or so as to affect, one closely or personally. Cf. close (also near) to home at Phrases 10. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting a type of place > [adverb] > nearer one's own dwelling place near home1525 the world > relative properties > relationship > [adverb] > intimately or closely > closely connected with near home1525 genuine to1659 hand and glove1774 the world > relative properties > relationship > [adverb] > intimately or closely > into close contact near home1525 home1532 1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. cx. f. cxxiiiv/2 Nowe I wyll speke of matters nerer home. 1565 T. Harding Confut. Apol. Church of Eng. i. v. f. 13v To come neare home, Ioan of Kent that filth, who tooke forth a lesson further then ye taught her (I trowe) or yet preach, was she a syster of yours? 1577 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. (1878) iii. ii. ii. 13 Peradventure we might haue found the same neerer home. 1657 S. Purchas Theatre Flying-insects xxv. 166 No wonder if hee were a stranger abroad that was ignorant of Countries near home. 1667 N. Fairfax Let. 5 Dec. in H. Oldenburg Corr. (1967) IV. 14 I doubt ye busines lyes deep nearer home. 1709 Refl. Sacheverell's Serm. 22 The Dr. ought to look nearer home. 1791 Gentleman's Mag. Mar. 217/1 That village, which, I am persuaded, would afford much gratification to the Antiquaries, as perhaps it has been a path untrodden by being too near home. 1819 London Lit. Gaz. 25 Sept. 622/1 To turn a Scot into ridicule is coming too near home, it might by a ricochet, and by a recoiling action, light upon himself. 1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) III. 167 There are whole countries too, such as India, or, nearer home, Ireland. 1925 B. Vanzetti Let. 31 July in Lett. Sacco & Vanzetti (1997) ii. ii. 166 The picture of the moccasin flowers are beautiful. I saw and plucked some on a hill near home in Plymouth, Mass. 1954 C. P. Snow New Men iv. xxviii. 206 ‘Don't you like extravagant people?’ she asked. ‘Yes,’ I said. ‘Unless it comes too near home.’ 2009 H. Mantel Wolf Hall ii. ii. 69 Nearer home, his own sister Margaret..divorced her second husband and remarried. d. regional (chiefly U.S.). to home: at home. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > [adverb] > home > at home at homeeOE in1572 homec1580 to home1795 1795 B. Dearborn Columbian Gram. 139 Improprieties, commonly called Vulgarisms..[include] To home for At home. 1833 J. Neal Down-easters I. 62 When he's to home..he's match for gab with anybody 't ever you come across. 1868 F. P. Verney Stone Edge ii I'm main sorry Master Broom ain't to home. 1873 ‘S. Coolidge’ What Katy Did (U.K. ed.) xii. 222 'Tain't every girl would know how to take care of a fat old woman, and make her feel to home. 1910 Dial. Notes 3 450 [Western New York] Is your father to home? 1972 J. Gores Dead Skip (1973) viii. 52 White meat don't turn me on. I got Maybelle and four cute kids to home. 2007 J. Clinch Finn i. 11 I expect that woman of yours ain't to home, you running around like that. e. back home: (with reference to a place that a person has temporarily or permanently left) where a person is from; at home. ΚΠ 1862 E. L. Blanchard Cherry & Fair Star ii. 8 So you'd brush, eh, would you, miss, back home? 1891 B. E. Fernow What is Forestry? iv. 48 The Eastern man who..plants a few shade trees in front of his Dakota sod shanty, hoping that they will grow as they do ‘back home’. 1903 Newark (Ohio) Advocate 23 Mar. 7/2 Each of the six friends back home wrote to me. 1965 E. Gruening in C. L. Lokke Klondike Saga p. xi To their communities back home the rushers sent accounts of their experiences, which were willingly published by their local newspapers. 2006 T. Anderson Riding Magic Carpet (2008) iv. 127 The take-off was interesting—exactly the same whitewater scramble as that of the Severn Bore back home. P2. Phrases (many proverbial) expressing love or affection for one's own home, home country, etc. ΚΠ 1546 [see sense A. 2b]. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Pouvoir When all is done home's homelie. a1656 Bp. J. Hall Shaking of Olive-tree (1660) 204 We are ready to say, Home is homely, and our heart is there, though our bodies be away. 1840 M. Moffat Let. 25 Nov. in J. S. Moffat Lives R. & M. Moffat (1888) xxiii. 230 I long for my own home, for though loaded with the kindness of friends, and welcome everywhere, still home is homely! 1856 Pop. Lecturer New Ser. 1 314 Those two classes adopt two different forms of a very old proverb, which sets forth that home is home, be it ever so homely. One class adopts that, but the other is rather disposed to say, that home is homely, be it ever so homely. b. home is home. ΚΠ 1600 [see sense A. 2b]. 1725 I. Watts Logick ii. i. 228 There are some Propositions, wherein the Terms of the Subject and Predicate seem to be the same, yet the Ideas are not the same;..such as, Home is Home; that is, Home is a convenient or delightful Place. 1845 E. T. Clapp Stud. in Relig. 217 The first essential of true home is, that it be our own: ‘home is home’, is the inspired song of the affections. 1897 A. B. Bruce Providential Order of World v. 124 Home is home in all the centuries. 1943 Boys' Life Oct. 5/3 I'll find..my bed in the room above, or the place where the bed once stood, if the Japanese haven't taken it away or destroyed it. No matter. Home is home. 2010 K. Giffin Few Yards Shy of Heaven xii. 137 ‘Boy, we're two and oh. You sure you wanna be leavin' now?’ ‘Two and oh, or ten wins and no loses... Home is home.’ c. home sweet home. ΚΠ a1699 J. Beaumont Orig. Poems Eng. & Lat. (1749) 51 But Home, sweet Home, releaseth me From anxious Joys. 1796 tr. Dulce Domum (song) in Gentleman's Mag. Mar. 209/1 Home, the seat of joy and pleasure, Home, sweet home, inspires our lay! 1800 E. Sandham Trifles 169 Though a ramble of this sort was sometimes pleasant,—‘home—sweet home’, is always welcome. 1822 J. H. Payne (song) (title) Home, sweet home. 1881 E. H. Hickey Sculptor 60 Home, sweet home! at last, in the own country. 1901 H. F. Gordon Ocean Heroes xi. 161 So the returned invalid, with the words tenderly whispered, ‘Home, sweet home,’ started by train, and arrived safely at the Rectory. 1963 A. Baraka Blues People vii. 88 The bee gets the honey and brings it to the comb, Else he's kicked out of his home sweet home. 1991 C. Hiaasen Native Tongue xx. 171 Carrie turned a corner into a trailer park, and coasted the car to the end of a narrow gravel lane. ‘Home sweet home,’ she said. d. (there's) no place like home. ΚΠ 1810 J. Robinson Savage ix. 114 Home at last—quite exhausted—no place like home. 1822 J. H. Payne Home, Sweet Home (song) Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home. 1874 Times 27 June 11/2 Many who are incurable have kind friends and families willing..to nurse them at home. For such, we admit: ‘there is no place like home’. 1946 I. Gershwin Paris (FR.) (song) in Lyrics on Several Occasions (1959) 74 Don't mention Tripoli, London or Rome; Sing out hip-hippily: No place like home! 1955 L. P. Hartley Perfect Woman xiv. 136 When he said, ‘There's no place like home, is there?’ her thoughts did not wince at this obvious remark. 2002 No Depression July 59/2 Her friendship with Marr made her realize there's no place like home. ‘I was really getting ungrounded... I really need my home right now.’ P3. figurative. to call (a person) home. ΚΠ 1580 Second & Third Blast Plaies To Rdr. sig. A.iv The Lord of his goodnes hath called him home; so that he did not so much delight in plaies in times past, but he doth as much detest them now, and is hartilie sorie that euer he was such an instrument to set vice afloate. 1612 J. Mason Anat. Sorcerie 52 He..had seen that the Lord had alwaies called him home againe into the right way by aduersity and troubles. 1612 J. Boys Autumne Part 68 Such a Gallant Augustine was in his vnruly youth, vntill almightie God effectually called him home by a voyce from heauen, crying..Take the booke and reade. b. Of God, death, etc.: to bring the earthly life of (a person) to an end. Frequently in passive: to enter the afterlife, to die. Cf. sense A. 3. ΚΠ a1674 J. Janeway Token for Children (1676) 18 After she had done a great deal of work for God and her own soul, and others too, she was called home to rest, and received into the arms of Jesus before she was ten years old. a1732 T. Boston Memoirs (1776) vi. 62 I judged them happy, who, having done their work in the vineyard, were called home, and not made to see the dishonour done to God amongst us. 1774 Royal Amer. Mag. Feb. 45/1 Scarce a cloud intercepted the rays of his felicity, until the partner of his soul was called home to her native skies. 1806 Evangelical Mag. Oct. 473/2 His death..was very quick..;—his heavenly Father called him home; and he was well prepared to meet his God. 1841 Huron Reflector (Norwalk, Ohio) 20 Mar. Death called him home, and left his disconsolated wife a widow. 1899 Interior (Chicago) 19 Jan. 96/1 It seemed not death, but peaceful sleep, so gently did it come. When Jesus called him home. 1911 Bull. Chicago Med. Soc. 23 Dec. 2 He took up the scalpel, never to lay it down until the Great Physician called him home. 1989 G. H. W. Bush in Independent (Nexis) 25 Apr. (Foreign News section) 10 We will not, cannot, as long as we live, know why God has called them home. 2002 Indian Country Today (Rapid City, S. Dakota) 14 Aug. b3/2 Frederick Earl S—..returned to his Heavenly Father on July 29... Fred was called home quickly and unexpectedly with a massive heart attack. P4. charity begins at home: see charity n. 9. P5. England, home, and beauty: see England n. Phrases 2. P6. a woman's place is in the home: see woman n. Phrases 1f. P7. an Englishman's (also man's) home is his castle: see castle n. Additions. 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. P9. home (away) from home: a place where one is as happy, relaxed, or comfortable as in one's own home; esp. one providing homelike accommodation or amenities. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > [noun] > home > place like or as good as home home (away) from home1866 second home1883 spiritual home1915 1866 Anglo-Amer. Times 19 May 7/3 He cannot too strongly recommend as ‘a home from home’ the Waverley Temperance Hotels. 1873 All Year Round 27 Sept. 520/1 Peaceable and quiet. A home away from home. 1907 Daily Chron. 30 Nov. 3/3 The British man is a clubbable animal, and doesn't mind paying handsomely for his ‘home from home’. c1926 ‘Mixer’ Transport Workers' Song Bk. 21 It's like a home-away-from-home. 1962 Guardian 6 Oct. 12/4 The idea is to provide a ‘home from home’ atmosphere for boys between 16 and 19. 1997 Baltimore Mag. Aug. 42/1 A good café is a home away from home. 2010 Coarse Fisherman Apr. 57/2 The Emperor 8-leg bedchair really is home from home for the carp angler. P10. close (also near) to home: (figurative) so as to affect one personally; (so as to be) unsettlingly applicable to oneself. ΚΠ 1889 Southern Dental Jrnl. 8 70 The next thought, gentlemen, comes closer to home... Are we armed, equipped and ready to impart the knowledge and properly instruct the people? I am afraid not. 1905 Sunset Feb. 430/2 Our satiro-parodist strikes the reading public very close to home, dealing out quips and quizzes without favor or fear. 1959 Boston Daily Globe 24 June 22/8 I wonder, too, if the picture of the young people of Japan searching for something to believe in,..was not, also, rather close to home. 1978 Times 12 Aug. 13 It [sc. the Liberal party] has nothing of importance to say to anyone if it starts fine tuning on its basic principles when they come a little too near to home. 2001 J. A. Brown Black Superheroes, Milestone Comics, & their Fans iv. 123 The negative stereotypes..that some of the older readers..feel hit rather close to home at times. P11. to be home to: to be the abode or location of; to accommodate, house. ΚΠ 1894 Times 2 Apr. 6/2 A territory which embraces 30,570 square miles, and is home to a population of 1,150,000, 689,000 of whom are negroes. 1945 Pop. Mech. Sept. 45/1 It [sc. Winslow] is home to a fleet of 68 main line Diesel-electric freight engines. 1972 Hunting & Fishing in Michigan 1/2 Forests and dense bushy areas are home to Ruffed Grouse, or ‘Pats’. 1989 Ski Nov. 44 e/1 In addition to its ultraexpert terrain, Mt. Mansfield is home to another whole world of skiing. 2009 J. A. Coyne Why Evol. is True iv. 110 St. Helena, though lacking many groups of insects, is home to dozens of species of small, flightless beetles, especially wood weevils. P12. to wash one's dirty linen at home: see wash v. 2c. P13. Originally U.S. you can't go home again: it is impossible to return to the way things used to be; change is inevitable. ΚΠ a1938 T. Wolfe You can't go Home Again (1940) iii. 324 They did not know that you can't go home again. America had come to the end of something, and to the beginning of something else. 1969 N.Y. Mag. 7 Apr. 54/1 Okay. So you can't go home again. But it's sort of nice just to take a stroll around the old neighborhood, even though admittedly it's not the same. 1989 A. C. Bredahl New Ground viii. 127 Clyde discovers the obvious, that you can't go home again; but his act of return initiates the process of ‘stock taking’ that enables him to abandon nostalgia. 2009 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 12 Aug. 12 The Americans have a phrase for it: you can't go home again. Once you leave, that is it. There are few second and even fewer third acts in the life of an international sportsman. P14. to play away from home: see play v. 14g. to call (a couple or person) home P3. English regional (south-western). to call (a couple or person) home: to announce the marriage banns of (a couple or person) in church. Also with the banns as object. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > official announcements, permission, or records > official announcements [verb (transitive)] > proclaim (banns) > proclaim (people or their names) proclaim1530 publish1651 to call (a couple or person) home1653 cry1775 shout1895 1653 in G. P. R. Pulman Bk. Axe (1875) (ed. 4) ii. 133 William Walker and Loveday Michel have bin called home at Froom Vauchurch three several Sundaies by me. 1763 J. Woodforde Diary 19 June in Woodforde at Oxf. (1969) 135 For calling two People Home, I received 0. 2. 6. 1793 Gentleman's Mag. Dec. 1083/2 Called home, asked in church by banns; and this, either first, second, or third time. King's Sedgemoor. 1872 T. Hardy Under Greenwood Tree II. v. i. 179 Didn't Dick and Fancy sound well when they were called home in church last Sunday? 1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles II. xxxii. 153 You was not called home this morning. 1896 Gentleman's Mag. Apr. 355 In less than three months we were ‘called home’ at church, which is what they sezs in our part for ‘publishin' the banns’. 1908 M. P. Willcocks Man of Genius xxvi. 386 And 'Lisbeth Ann wouldn't hear of the banns being called home without he'd give her everything right and proper. < as lemmas |
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