home from home
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- noun
- UK
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hogar lejos del hogar
- This charming little town has everything I need to make it feel like a home from home.
Examples
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After traveling for weeks, I finally found a cozy cafe that felt like home from home.
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The big gray lump is GarytheTourist's home from home, the Galleon Resort, whence one presumably enjoys a similar view across the open water as well.
Blog text (26) -
During my stay in the city, the small guesthouse became my home from home.
Synonyms
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A place where you feel as comfortable and relaxed as in your own house
A place where you feel safe and like yourself
A place like a home or garden that gives rest and comfort
How Cozy
- US
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- UK
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3.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
Each word ('home', 'from', 'home') is individually transparent, and the phrase signals a relation to the notion of 'home', but the precise idiomatic reading 'a place where one feels as comfortable as in their own home' is not strictly predictable from the literal combination without prior exposure. There are cross-linguistic equivalents that make the basic concept accessible, yet the fixed repetition and idiomatic framing make the expression only partially compositional for a B1 learner.
Etymology
Home from home paints the picture of a place away from your own home that feels just like it. One popular idea is that you bring the comforts from your real home into another place, so the phrase now means 'a place where you feel as comfortable and at ease as in your own home'.