back home
idiom
: in one's hometown : in the place one is from
People back home would never believe how much he has changed.
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Moore credited his wife with his personal and creative rebirth that eventually led him back home to Miami.
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Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 13 Jan. 2025
In the locker room after, players and coaches roared with joy, able to forget for a moment what was happening back home.
—Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2025
There, the samples would be transferred again, this time to a second orbiting spacecraft, equipped with an Earth-transit module which would carry the soil and rock back home.
—Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 13 Jan. 2025
Although it is often overshadowed back home by the red wines of Burgundy and Bordeaux (where frost killed off most of the Malbec planted there in 1956), the winemakers of Cahors in the country’s southwest have continued to make excellent but often overlooked versions to this day.
—Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 12 Jan. 2025
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Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 13 Jan. 2025
In the locker room after, players and coaches roared with joy, able to forget for a moment what was happening back home.
—Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2025
There, the samples would be transferred again, this time to a second orbiting spacecraft, equipped with an Earth-transit module which would carry the soil and rock back home.
—Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 13 Jan. 2025
Although it is often overshadowed back home by the red wines of Burgundy and Bordeaux (where frost killed off most of the Malbec planted there in 1956), the winemakers of Cahors in the country’s southwest have continued to make excellent but often overlooked versions to this day.
—Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 12 Jan. 2025
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“Back home.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/back%20home. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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