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bring home

vb. 1 (context idiomatic transitive English) To earn (money) 2 (context idiomatic English) To make clearer or better understood

WordNet
bring home
  1. v. make understandable and clear; "This brings home my point"

  2. earn as a salary or wage; "How much does your wife take home after taxes and other deductions?" [syn: take home]

Usage examples of "bring home".

About why Jess thought I was important enough to bring home for a souvenir, and why the cops are after me.

The villain gets his due, Meyer gets his confidence back, and McGee gets to bring home his stunning new ladyfriend.

He dared not bring home to the Federation an entity that was, if the last few seconds were any indication, far more powerful than any either he or the Federation had yet encountered.

He is a grandfather, a retired toy manufacturer who warms himself on pleasant fall days by planning expeditions for his grandchildren, zoos he can take them to, pictures he can bring home but nevertheless he is no fool.

Her manner became less calm, her utterance more rapid and agitated, as she tried to bring home to the people their guilt their wilful darkness, their state of disobedience to God--as she dwelt on the hatefulness of sin, the Divine holiness, and the sufferings of the Saviour, by which a way had been opened for their salvation.

Congress some years ago cheerfully voted the massive appropriations that keep my little crew, my ship and myself trundling in the darkness to drop off supplies and good news at their end, and to bring home an occasional corpse and a lot of bad news from there.

She could remember two years in a row when there had been little to eat except turnip soup and old barley, and hunters had been lucky to bring home a scrawny rabbit, but Two Rivers folk picked themselves up when they were knocked down and went back to work.

They rip off the covers to bring home as proof that they have been destroyed, then pack the books into their trunk and bury it in the bank of an especially vindictive river.

The Doctor gives me a hundred and tells me to bring home a painting.

There's plenty of other people out there to make sure it takes a strong party to bring home the bacon.

The first time it occurred to her to bring home two or three little meat pies, she felt that she had hit upon a discovery.

He knew just where to find the first Mayflowers, and would bring home the waxen beauties when other people had scarcely begun to think about the spring.

Collins having been in waiting near the lodges, to make them his parting obeisance, was able to bring home the pleasing intelligence, of their appearing in very good health, and in as tolerable spirits as could be expected, after the melancholy scene so lately gone through at Rosings.

All sorts of splendid red and yellow leaves did Dan bring home for Mrs.