home sweet home
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2.3
- idiom
- Informal
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- After a long trip, there's nothing like the feeling of being back at home sweet home.
- bless America, my home sweet home
- America, my home sweet home
- home sweet home," he said
So either way, it's good to be home sweet home.
- So either way, it's good to be home sweet home.
Examples
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When you're willing to give up a good-paying job to move to another country and completely start over, you know it's not exactly home sweet home.
Blog text (4) -
Home sweet home for the next six months.
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Nothing like home sweet home.
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This is like home sweet home to me.
Fiction book (2001) -
"Home, sweet home," Bill said.
Fiction book (2001) -
"Home sweet home," he said.
Fiction book (1996) -
Home sweet home for the past month!
Blog text (25) -
My home sweet home.
Blog text (3) -
Home sweet home!
Fiction book (1999) -
Dwight's home sweet home.
Fiction book (1993)
Surface Forms
Morphology
The sense 'an affectionate or sentimental feeling about one's own home' is directly derivable from combining 'home' (place of residence) with 'sweet' (pleasant, delightful); the repetition of 'home' simply emphasizes the sentiment. This is a compositional, conventionalized exclamation found cross-linguistically in similar forms, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words would readily understand it.
Etymology
Home sweet home may come from an old song from the 1800s. In the song the writer calls his house home and calls it sweet, a simple, warm image that people began to use when they felt happy and safe at home. So today home sweet home is a way to say 'a warm feeling of comfort and love for your own home'.