phrasal verb · neutral
come home to
UK/kʌm həʊm tuː/US/kʌm hoʊm tuː/come HOME·to
to make someone suddenly realize or fully understand something
Examples
“When I saw the news about the layoffs, it really came home to me how uncertain the economy is.”
“It came home to students that they had underestimated the difficulty of the exam.”
“Only when the deadline was moved did it come home to them that they had left the project too late.”
Band 8 sentence
“When the funding was withdrawn, it finally came home to the researchers how fragile their project was.”
Collocations
- it came home to someone
- really/slowly came home to
Word family
Common mistakes
come to home→come home to
it came home for me→it came home to me
Say it for a higher band
5realize→6notice→7+come home to
Synonyms
hit home
realize suddenly
Easily confused
hit home
“The final exam results really hit home for many students.”
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