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Come home

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To return to one's house, or to any place of origin.
  2. 2
    become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions wordnet
  3. 3
    To touch a person's interests or feelings closely; to be fully understood or realised.

    "It was only when I heard the police sirens that the seriousness of what I had done came home to me."

  4. 4
    To drag or slip through the ground.
  5. 5
    To achieve success (typically by winning an international competition) in the country in which the sport was invented.

Etymology

The sport usage was popularised by the 1996 song "Three Lions", which contains the phrase "it's coming home", referring to the UEFA Euro 1996 championship hosted in England, the birthplace of association football.

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