back home
idiom
: in one's hometown : in the place one is from
People back home would never believe how much he has changed.
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Haley, 43, was on her way back home with her family after visiting her aunt who lives on Hawaii Island.
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Kathleen Wong, USA Today, 8 Apr. 2025
Hilbert and his family moved from Fairfield, Connecticut, in 2017 and missed the sourdough-style bagels from back home, softer than the traditional New York bagel.
—Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 Apr. 2025
Mike has addressed it — and it was very lightly touched upon — the suggestion that the daughter was maybe nonbinary, and was going through some of that conversation in her life and was struggling maybe with some other issues back home.
—Emily Longeretta, Variety, 7 Apr. 2025
Just as his family’s Thai vacation was beginning, the North Carolina tycoon Tim Ratliff (Jason Isaacs) learned that his company back home was falling apart.
—Noel Murray, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2025
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Kathleen Wong, USA Today, 8 Apr. 2025
Hilbert and his family moved from Fairfield, Connecticut, in 2017 and missed the sourdough-style bagels from back home, softer than the traditional New York bagel.
—Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 Apr. 2025
Mike has addressed it — and it was very lightly touched upon — the suggestion that the daughter was maybe nonbinary, and was going through some of that conversation in her life and was struggling maybe with some other issues back home.
—Emily Longeretta, Variety, 7 Apr. 2025
Just as his family’s Thai vacation was beginning, the North Carolina tycoon Tim Ratliff (Jason Isaacs) learned that his company back home was falling apart.
—Noel Murray, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2025
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“Back home.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/back%20home. Accessed 11 Apr. 2025.
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