come home
Preserved but no longer current.
Return to your house; to 'touch one's feelings or interest. I doe now publish my Essayes: which, of all my other workes, have been most currant : for that, as it seems, they come home to men's businesse and bosomes.— BACON: Epistle Dedicatory to the Essays, 1625.
Era: ca. 1898 (Victorian)
Examples
Tatoeba sentence #1555217 (CC BY 2.0 FR, tatoeba.org, retrieved 2026-07-31)
Sources & notes
Reproduced from Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898 edition, public domain; archive.org, retrieved 2026-07-31; OCR text, minor errors possible). Reflects the scholarship and attitudes of its era.
Common questions
What does “come home” mean?
Return to your house; to 'touch one's feelings or interest. I doe now publish my Essayes: which, of all my other workes, have been most currant : for that, as it seems, they come home to men's businesse and bosomes.— BACON: Epistle Dedicatory to the Essays, 1625.
Is “come home” formal or informal?
No register label has been reviewed yet — treat it as neutral and check the usage notes above.