hit/strike home
idiom
: to become very clear and obvious in usually a forceful or unpleasant way
The truth about their marriage finally hit home.
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With 170 million Americans still reeling from a ban that was and then was not — all in under 24-hours, the implications of what actually happened are starting to hit home.
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Zak Doffman, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2025
As someone who's also Ecuadorian-American, and who was undocumented until my mid 20s, there was so much in this book that hit home.
—Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 27 Dec. 2024
Suddenly, in a nightmarish sense, brutality has hit home for Sterling Cooper’s employees, with Joan as combat medic.
—Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 3 Oct. 2024
But the truth really hit home during a brief stint working as a full-time, remote marketing content writer for a fast-growing AI services company and had to create a whitepaper on data quality management for a finance audience.
—Renae Gregoire, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
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Zak Doffman, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2025
As someone who's also Ecuadorian-American, and who was undocumented until my mid 20s, there was so much in this book that hit home.
—Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 27 Dec. 2024
Suddenly, in a nightmarish sense, brutality has hit home for Sterling Cooper’s employees, with Joan as combat medic.
—Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 3 Oct. 2024
But the truth really hit home during a brief stint working as a full-time, remote marketing content writer for a fast-growing AI services company and had to create a whitepaper on data quality management for a finance audience.
—Renae Gregoire, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
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“Hit/strike home.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hit%2Fstrike%20home. Accessed 7 Feb. 2025.
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