hit home

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hit home

verb hits home · hitting home · hit home

idiomatic To be especially memorable, meaningful, or significant; to be fully understood, believed or appreciated. Do you think the message really hit home with him?
Similar: strike a chord, come home
of an attack To strike its target with damaging effect. This revised situation doesn't go well for poor old Nagato. Whilst curls of smoke and scorch marks along the hulls and superstructures of Washington and Alabama do tell of some Japanese shells hitting home, neither of them seem particularly perturbed by this. Instead, their fire begins to overhaul t

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verb to be especially memorable

Español	es especialmente memorable
Français	faire mouche

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@misc{hit_home_2026,
  title = {hit home},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/hit%20home},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}