come home

Verb

Meaning

become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

dawn click penetrate come back get through sink in get across fall into place

Examples

The charges we bring against others often come home to ourselves; we inveigh against faults which are as much ours as theirs; and so our eloquence ends by telling against ourselves. Jerome

Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means. Henny Youngman

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home. Winston Churchill

You can wait till the cows come home. Polish Proverb

If you ask for too much at once, you will come home with an empty bag. Croatian Proverb

The chickens have come home to roost. American Proverb

Close letter words and terms

come high water come hither come hither look come home by weeping cross come home to come home to roost