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Home sweet home
Meaning
- A phrase used to express comfort and relief upon arriving back at your own living space. It signals that you are glad to be in your own surroundings.
Comforting, nostalgic
Used in a sentence
- After three weeks on the road, it is finally home sweet home.
- I kicked off my shoes and sighed, home sweet home.
- There is nothing like a warm cup of tea in my own kitchen, home sweet home.
The backstory
The phrase comes from an 1823 song written by John Howard Payne. The song became so incredibly popular that it cemented the three words into the cultural consciousness as a shorthand for domestic bliss.
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