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Name A Phrase That Has The Word Home In It
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Social Worker
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Flowers
Jewelery
Perfume
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Makeup
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Creamed
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Retirement
Ira
Rrsp
Pension
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Smoking
Weapons
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Bodyguards
Money
Gun
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7. Name a hairstyle that might not fit on a passport photo(6 answers)
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Doing Hair
Cleaning
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Vocabulary activity
1.Find the meaning of the phrases and idioms on the left column.
IDIOM / |
MEANING |
1. A man’s home is his castle. |
A. |
2. Feel at home |
B. A |
3. Close to home |
C. Make |
4. There’s no place like home |
D. Feel |
5. Until the cows home home |
E. One |
6. Bring home the bacon |
F. A |
7. Homesick |
G. To succeed with something |
8. Home/ Homeboy / Homie/ Homey |
H. You |
9. Home wrecker |
I. |
10. Homebound |
J. Not |
11. Homemaker |
K. |
12.Charity begins at home. |
L. Made |
13. Homemade |
M. Relax; Feel comfortable. |
14. Be at home in… |
N. Home |
15. Nothing to write home |
O. At |
16. Hit a home run |
P. Missing your home. |
2.Complete the sentences with a phrase or idiom.
1)I need to work a
few hours this weekend. You know, I have to …
2)That knife fell 2 inches
from my foot. A little too …
3)The food at the wedding
was fine but…
4) Cookies at the bakery
are good but your … cookies are better.
5)Those boys coming around
the corner are my … Steve and Mike.
6)I know my apartment is a
mess and the furniture doesn’t match but hey,…
7)I’ve been traveling for 8
months. I’m a bit … now.
8)You are very generous
with everybody. Now that your brother is getting married, you could help him…
9)I hate gossip, but
everybody is saying the new neighbor is a …
10)I’m very mellow I ….
everywhere.
11)I could never be a … I
love my career in marketing.
12)You really … winning
the award.
13)I haven’t even started
cooking so we won’t eat…
14)I love going away on
vacations but coming back is great too…
15)Ellie broke her ankle
and I guess she’ll be …. for at least a week.
16)At first I thought it
was going to be tough but I really…
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This diverts suspicion and confuses it; and for the same reason I recommended that even if you came back last night, you should not go home. It brings in more confusion, and you want confusion.»
This will I do, dear Queen, and never leave his dreary home, till the sunlight falls on flowers fair as those that bloom in our own dear land.»
Look at Aegisthus; he must needs make love to Agamemnon’s wife unrighteously and then kill Agamemnon, though he knew it would be the death of him; for I sent Mercury to warn him not to do either of these things, inasmuch as Orestes would be sure to take his revenge when he grew up and wanted to return home. Mercury told him this in all good will but he would not listen, and now he has paid for everything in full.»
At the end of my second year at Hampton, by the help of some money sent me by my mother and brother John, supplemented by a small gift from one of the teachers at Hampton, I was enabled to return to my home in Malden, West Virginia, to spend my vacation.
«It’s three years since I’ve received a line from home and ten years since I was there.
Tom had not heard anything from home for some weeks,—a fact which did not surprise him, for his father and mother were not apt to manifest their affection in unnecessary letters,—when, to his great surprise, on the morning of a dark, cold day near the end of November, he was told, soon after entering the study at nine o’clock, that his sister was in the drawing-room.
A joyful procession followed the Awkward Man and the Story Girl across the gray, star-litten meadows to his home and through his pine-guarded gate.
‘No; because, as you say, I have no particular associations connected with them; for there are no sweet violets among the hills and valleys round my home.’
It is possible, and even quite probable, that but for the mere circumstance of being removed from that plantation to Baltimore, I should have to-day, instead of being here seated by my own table, in the enjoyment of freedom and the happiness of home, writing this Narrative, been confined in the galling chains of slavery.
So the next morning the Prince mounted his fine horse and left his home. He had roamed round the world for a whole year, and his horse had died of exhaustion, while he himself had suffered much from want and misery, but still he had come on no trace of her he was in search of.
When I think of that, I wish that I need not have come home at all.
John was requested to order home a dozen or so of little pots and an extra quantity of sugar, for their own currants were ripe and were to be attended to at once.
Jimmie did not return home for a number of days after the fight with Pete in the saloon.
I mourned for the broken heart that had found rest in the stormy sea; and for the wandering remnants of the simple home, where I had heard the night-wind blowing, when I was a child.
When the fisherman went home to his wife in the pigsty, he told her how he had caught a great fish, and how it had told him it was an enchanted prince, and how, on hearing it speak, he had let it go again.
Home may be much more commonly used as a noun than as a verb, but it is used as a verb in the expression to home in on, meaning “to find and move directly toward (someone or something).” Think of homing pigeon to remember this usage. Hone is more familiar as a verb, meaning “to sharpen or smooth with a whetstone,” and this image of “making sharper” along with the similarity to home have led to hone in being used with the same meaning as home in, but many will consider this usage to be an error.
Some animals possess the uncanny ability to return to their home or to the location of their birth from just about anywhere. They’re able to «home» without the help of a GPS—which is more than most modern humans can say.
And yes: you can use the word home that way.
Home as a Verb
In fact, it’s this use of home that gave rise to the phrase home in, which is used both literally and figuratively to mean «to find and move directly toward (someone or something)»:
… salmon, for example, can home in on dissolved amino acids in river water … — Joseph Dussault, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Jan. 2016
They effortlessly pin down characteristics of the worst of L.A. types and home in on them … — Rebecca Bulnes, The A.V. Club, 11 Jan. 2016
But sometimes people use hone instead of home:
… the ads are starting to turn aggressive, as candidates and super PACs hone in on their opponents. — Steven Perlberg, The Wall Street Journal, 8 Jan. 2016
Asking the right questions allowed me to hone in on their specific needs. — Linda Harding-Bond, The Huffington Post, 7 Jan. 2016
And who can blame them, really? The use of home that gave us the phrase home in is unfamiliar to the great majority of us for whom the word home is exclusively a noun.
The verb home is relatively young, as words go. The noun dates to Old English, but our earliest evidence of the verb in use is from 1765, when it was used to mean «to go or return home.» Within the next hundred years the verb had developed an animal-specific sense: an animal returning to its home or birthplace was said to be «homing.» Usually the animal in question was a pigeon—in particular, a homing pigeon.
By the 1920s, pilots were homing toward their destinations; in the decades following, vehicles and projectiles were said to be «homing» as they moved closer to their destinations or targets. By the 1950s home was being used figuratively to describe the action of anyone or anything proceeding toward or directing attention toward an objective.
Is Hone Wrong?
The verb hone also dates to the late 1700s. Its original meaning is «to sharpen or smooth with a whetstone.» By the early 20th century another meaning had developed: «to make more acute, intense, or effective.» Instead of just honing blades, people were now honing skills.
It’s the narrowing or sharpening of focus implied in the figurative meaning of hone that seems to have made hone in seem like the right phrase to some, rather than home in with its unfamiliar verb home.
This use of hone in dates to around 1965, which makes it only about 10 years newer than the figurative use of home in. We have enough evidence of hone in in use that we enter it in our dictionaries. As the note at that entry makes clear, however, home in remains significantly more common, and is the version to use if you want to avoid criticism. Zero in is also an option if you want to avoid the very similar h-words altogether.
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