close to home

Meaning

1. if a remark or topic of discussion is close to home, it is accurate or connected with you in a way that makes you uncomfortable or embarrassed

   Her remarks about me were embarrassingly close to home.

In the movies · 14

• That festival was so close to home.Summer of Soul2021
• Maybe I'm looking too close to home.What Is a Woman?2022
• It is a little bit... Close to home.Scream VI2023
• Are you punishing me because I want you to stay close to home?10 Things I Hate About You1999
• It's the number of job offers Tom turned down before we found one close to home.Cheaper by the Dozen2003
• She might be getting a job closer to home.As Good as It Gets1997
• I prefer he be independent closer to home.The Wild Robot2024
• So they can be a little closer to home.Fahrenheit 9/112004

Learn it in full scenes

• The Wild Robot2024
  • Roz Boots Up on the Island
  • Roz Becomes an Accidental Mother
  • Fink Teaches the Gosling

From the same entry

• close the book on
• close its doors
• close your mind to
• close ranks
• close the door on
• shut your ears to
• shut your eyes to
• with your eyes shut
• close down
• close in
• close in
• close off