Language: en
Meaning: (idiomatic)To be especiallymemorable,meaningful, orsignificant; to be fullyunderstood,believedorappreciated.Synonyms:strike a chord,strike homeDo you think the message reallyhit homewith him?Baked goodies can reallyhit homewith a crowd.2008, Gordon Watt,Fading Home, AuthorHouse,→ISBN, page297:Which led me to publish it, to see if ithits homeat all. Which, to me, is the point of the written word, the novels: Our desire to be reassured and read that, in all this, we're not alone.; (of an attack, weapon, or projectile)Tostrikeitstargetwithdamagingeffect.2021May 5, Drachinifel, 32:32 from the start, inBattle of Samar - What if TF34 was there?[1], archived fromthe originalon8 August 2022:This revised situation doesn't go well for poor oldNagato. Whilst curls of smoke and scorch marks along the hulls and superstructures ofWashingtonandAlabamado tell ofsomeJapanese shellshitting home, neither of them seem particularly perturbed by this. Instead, their fire begins to overhaul the Japanese battleship, and, sooner or later, another salvo of 16-inch shells - no one's quite sure whether it comes fromAlabamaorWashington- smashes into the base of the superfiring aft turret.
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