英和和英

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hit home (third-person singular simple present hits home, present participle hitting home, simple past and past participle hit home)

1. (idiomatic) To be especially memorable, meaningful, or significant; to be fully understood, believed or appreciated.

   Synonyms: strike a chord, strike home

   Do you think the message really hit home with him?

   Baked goodies can really hit home with a crowd.

   • 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:

     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.

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

     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.

2. (of an attack, weapon, or projectile) To strike its target with damaging effect.
   • 2021 May 5, Drachinifel, 32:32 from the start, in Battle of Samar - What if TF34 was there?‎, archived from the original on 8 August 2022:

     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.

参考

• bat a thousand
• hit a home run

Further reading

• “hit home”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.