phrasal verb · neutral

come home to

UK/kʌm həʊm tuː/US/kʌm hoʊm tuː/come HOME·to

speakingtask2

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When the funding was withdrawn, it finally came home to the researchers how fragile their project was.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

come home to verb phrasecame home to verb (past)coming home to verb (gerund)

Common mistakes

come to homecome home to

it came home for meit came home to me

Say it for a higher band

5realize6notice7+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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