bring something home to someone Definition

bring
verb brought, bringing

1. To carry or take something or someone to a stated or implied place or person.

Example: Bring the cup here
Thesaurus: transport, convey, carry, conduct, bear, transfer.
2. To make someone or something be in, or reach, a certain state.

Example: It brought him to his senses
Example: bring two new rules into effect
3. To make something or result in it.

Example: War brings misery
Thesaurus: cause, produce, effect, begin, make, generate, beget, institute, initiate, engender, create.
4. To persuade, make or force oneself to do (something unpleasant).

Example: I can't bring myself to tell her
Form: bring oneself to do something (especially)
5. To be sold for (a stated price); to produce (a stated amount) as income.

Form: bring in something (especially)
6. To make (a charge or action, etc) against someone.
7. To give (evidence) to a court, etc.

Derivative: bringer
noun

Idiom: bring home something (bring something home to someone)

To prove or show it clearly.

Idiom: bring the house down

Said of an actor or performer, etc: to receive ecstatic applause; to be brilliantly successful.

Idiom: bring something to bear

To make (pressure or influence) felt; to apply it.

Idiom: bring something to mind

To make it be remembered or thought about.
Example: That story brought to mind my student days

Idiom: bring up the rear

To come last or behind all the others.

Idiom: bring someone up short

To make them stop suddenly.
Example: The doorbell brought me up short

Etymology: Anglo-Saxon bringan.

Phrasal Verb: bring something about

To make it happen; to cause it.

Phrasal Verb: bring something or someone along

Usually said of a person: to bring or convey (a thing or person) with them.To help something develop.
Example: His visit brought the decorating along greatly

Phrasal Verb: bring something back

To make (a thought or memory) return.

Phrasal Verb: bring someone down

To make them sad or disappointed, etc.To demean them.

Phrasal Verb: bring something down

To make it fall or collapse.

Phrasal Verb: bring something forth

To give birth to or produce (an offspring, etc).

Phrasal Verb: bring something forward

To move (an arrangement, etc) to an earlier date or time.To draw attention to it.
Example: I hesitate to bring the matter forward
To transfer (a partial sum) to the head of the next column.

Phrasal Verb: bring something in

To introduce it or make it effective, etc.To produce (income or profit).

Phrasal Verb: bring something off

To succeed in doing (something difficult).
Example: It's really tricky, so I hope I can bring it off OK

Phrasal Verb: bring something on

To help it to develop or progress.
Example: The rain will bring on my seedlings
To make it happen or appear.
Example: This weather brings on my arthritis

Phrasal Verb: bring something out

To emphasize or clarify something (often a quality in someone).
Example: brings out the worst in me
To publish or release it.
Example: brought out a new novel

Phrasal Verb: bring someone out in something

To cause them to be affected with (spots or a rash, etc).
Example: Cats bring me out in spots

Phrasal Verb: bring someone over or round or around

To convince them that one's own opinions, etc are right; to convert them to one's own side.

Phrasal Verb: bring someone round

To cause them to recover consciousness.

Phrasal Verb: bring someone to

To make (someone who is asleep or unconscious) wake up.

Phrasal Verb: bring something to

To bring (a ship) to a standstill.

Phrasal Verb: bring someone up

To care for and educate them when young.

Phrasal Verb: bring something up

To introduce (a subject) for discussion.To vomit or regurgitate (something eaten).

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home
noun

1. The place where one lives, often with one's family.

Thesaurus: residence, dwelling, abode, domicile, household, lodging, residence.
2. The country or area one originally comes from, either a birthplace or where one grew up.
3. A place where something first occurred, or was first invented.
4. An institution for people who need care or rest, eg the elderly, orphans, etc.

Thesaurus: asylum, clinic, hospice, hospital, institution.
5. A match played by a team on their own ground.
6. The den, base or finishing point in some games and races.

adj

1. Being at or belonging to one's home, country, family, sports ground, etc.
2. Made or done at home or in one's own country.

Example: home baking

adverb

1. To or at one's home.
2. To the target place, position, etc.

Example: hit the point home
3. To the furthest or final point; as far as possible.

Example: hammer the nail home
4. Said of a sporting event: on one's own ground, etc.

verb, intr homed, homing

1. To go or find the way home.
2. Said of an animal, especially a bird: to return home safely.

Idiom: at home

In one's home, country, sports ground, etc.

Feeling at ease or familiar with a place or situation.
Thesaurus: at ease, familiar, relaxed, comfortable.

Prepared to receive a visitor or visitors.

Idiom: bring something home to someone

To make it clear or obvious to them, so that there is no avoiding the conclusion.
Thesaurus: convince, impress upon, make clear to.

Idiom: eat someone out of house and home

colloq
To eat vast amounts of food at their expense.

Idiom: go home (strike home)

Said of a remark, etc: to make an effective impression on the mind of the person addressed.

Said of a blow: to hit its target.

Idiom: home and dry

Having arrived home or achieved one's goal.

Idiom: home from home

A place where one feels completely comfortable, relaxed, and happy, as if at home.

Idiom: make oneself at home

To be relaxed and unrestrained as if in one's own home.

Idiom: not at home

Not at one's house, or not willing to receive visitors.

Idiom: nothing to write home about

colloq
Something that is not particularly exciting or attractive.

Etymology: Anglo-Saxon ham.

Phrasal Verb: home in on something

To identify (a target or destination) and focus on attempting to reach it.