bring home

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bring home

verb brings home · bringing home · brought home

idiomatic, transitive To earn (money). I bring home 10000 dollars a month.
idiomatic To make clearer or better understood. War is the greatest of all agents of change. It speeds up all processes, wipes out minor distinctions, brings realities to the surface. Above all, war brings it home to the individual that he is not altogether an individual.
Similar: clarify, explain, illustrate
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bring, home. When, in July, 1897, my father brought home the first number of The Railway Magazine, I little thought that, sixty years later, I should still be reading it, without having missed a single number.

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@misc{bring_home_2026,
  title = {bring home},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/bring%20home},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}