come home

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come home

Rhymes with -əʊm

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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.

verb comes home · coming home · came home · come home

To return to one's house, or to any place of origin. 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 y
To touch a person's interests or feelings closely; to be fully understood or realised. It was only when I heard the police sirens that the seriousness of what I had done came home to me.
Similar: hit home
of an anchor To drag or slip through the ground.
of a sport To achieve success (typically by winning an international competition) in the country in which the sport was invented.

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@misc{come_home_2026,
  title = {come home},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/come%20home},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}