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strike home

VERB

hit where it hurts

Synonyms

WEAK

hit where one lives touch a nerve ending touch a sore spot

Example Sentences

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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

“The issues of race and racism probably strike home to me a little more, sometimes even daily, than others here,” she said.

From Washington Post • Jun. 6, 2020

As you stand at the top of the mine shaft kitted out in helmet and cap-lamp the realisation that this is no Disney-like simulation starts to strike home.

From BBC • May 6, 2013

"Though there's one thing I don't know," I went on, determined to strike home, if I could.

From That Affair at Elizabeth by Stevenson, Burton Egbert