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home sweet home

UK/həʊm swiːt həʊm/US/hoʊm swiːt hoʊm/
phraseB1Not compared — the two pools are counted one word at a time, so a phrase has no score

Home sweet home is the comfort of being back in your own house. Home sweet home at last.

It is said on arriving rather than at any other time. It comes from a song of 1823 and was embroidered onto a great many samplers afterwards.

Definitions of home sweet home

  1. 1phrasehome sweet homeThe comfort of being back in your own house.B1

    “He dropped the bags in the hall and said home sweet home.”

home sweet home is a phrase.

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