strike home
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"It's all these anecdotes that strike home more than anything else."
From BBC ● Mar. 2, 2026
He needs it more than he lets on, and slowly, O’Sullivan’s script reveals that the particularities of “Romeo and Juliet” strike home for Dan in a way he never anticipated.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 14, 2024
Rarely does a question from an audience member strike home.
From Salon ● May 15, 2023
Cardinals right fielder Lars Nootbar saved a run in the eighth as he caught a line drive and fired a strike home to double up pinch-runner Stuart Fairchild to end the inning.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 15, 2022
There is a shrewdness, although deficient in delicacy, in the Scottish proverbs; they are idiomatic, facetious, and strike home.
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Isaac Disraeli
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