bring home

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Meaning: (idiomatic,transitive)Toearn(money).Ibring home10000 dollars a month.; (idiomatic)To makeclearerorbetterunderstood.Synonyms:clarify,explain,illustrate1941,George Orwell,The Lion and the Unicorn, Pt. III:Waris the greatest of all agents of change. It speeds up all processes, wipes out minor distinctions, brings realities to the surface. Above all,warbrings it hometo the individual that he isnotaltogether an individual.1960December, “The Glasgow Suburban Electrification is opened”, inTrains Illustrated, page714:The economics of rebuilding all the stations covered by the electrification would be prohibitive, but to helpbring hometo the Glasgow public that their North Clyde suburban service has been transformed, not merely re-equipped with new trains, stations have at least been associated psychologically with the rolling stock by a common colour scheme.1977, Richard M. Restak,Pre-meditated man: bioethics and the control of future human life, Penguin Books, page142:Thisbrought homethe inadequacies of NIH policy regarding informed consent, as well as its continued reliance on the ethical judgment of its individual investigators.1992July/September, “Making Art Accessible”, inPoverty Today, number18, page 8:This incident reallybrings homethe whole question of access, the point of entry for people into observing or seeing art at that kind of level.1997June 30, Harvey Blume, “Autistics, freed from face-to-face encounters, are communicating in cyberspace.”, inThe New York Times‎[1],→ISSN:This wasbrought hometo me, an NT, when I asked an autistic E-mail correspondent, who is mordantly expressive on line, what it would be like to meet.2003, Leigh McCullough, Nat Kuhn, Stuart Andrews,Treating affect phobia: a manual for short-term dynamic psychotherapy, Guilford Press, page244:It reallybrings homethe amount of deprivation you lived through, and it's very common for grief to come up like this.2023December 27, Richard Foster, “Building a greener future”, inRAIL, number999, page34:Both the UK and Europe have experienced record summer temperatures in the past couple of years, which havebrought homethe fact that climate change is happening.

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