hit home

present singular third person hits home · participle present hitting home

1. idiomaticTo be especially memorable, meaningful, or significant; to be fully understood, believed or appreciated.

   Baked goodies can really hit home with a crowd.

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   Do you think the message really hit home with him?

   On my way out of the dungeon, I nearly tripped on a trapdoor set into the floor. Looking through its small, barred window, I saw what appeared to be the bones of some long-forgotten sufferer curled in the corner of a cramped cell. That’s when the full impact of medieval kink hit home.

   2005, Annabelle du Fouet, “The murky world from whence it all came” (chapter 2), in Weather Balloons Make Rotten Sex Toys, Ellora's Cave, →ISBN, page 44

   Which led me to publish it, to see if it hits home at all. Which, to me, is the point of the written word, the novels: Our desire to be reassured and read that, in all this, we're not alone.

   2008, Gordon Watt, Fading Home, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 297

   Synonyms: strike a chord, come home

2. or projectileengineeringTo strike its target with damaging effect.

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   This revised situation doesn't go well for poor old Nagato. Whilst curls of smoke and scorch marks along the hulls and superstructures of Washington and Alabama do tell of some Japanese shells hitting home, neither of them seem particularly perturbed by this. Instead, their fire begins to overhaul the Japanese battleship, and, sooner or later, another salvo of 16-inch shells - no one's quite sure whether it comes from Alabama or Washington - smashes into the base of the superfiring aft turret.

   2021 May 5, Drachinifel, 32:32 from the start, in Battle of Samar - What if TF34 was there?, archived from the original on 08 Aug 2022