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from home

Meaning

from home

(idiomatic, dated, chiefly UK) Away from home, not at home; away, out.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a great refuge from home life. George Bernard Shaw

As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate lovingly, our own. Margaret Mead

There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home. Dwight D. Eisenhower

When a heifer is far from home she grows longer horns. Irish Proverb

Away from home the girl picks forbidden fruit. Bantu Proverb

He that is drunk is gone from home. Italian Proverb

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