home sweet home
/ˌhəʊm swiːt ˈhəʊm/INFORMAL · B1
Meaning
said when you are happy to be back in your own house
Examples
- 1After ten days of camping, Maria dropped onto her own sofa and sighed happily: home sweet home.
- 2It's a tiny flat with a noisy boiler, but it's home sweet home to us.
- 3After a long week at the conference, Ben opened his front door and thought: home sweet home.
- 4The hotel was lovely, but nothing beats your own bed; it's home sweet home for me.
- 5Gran hugged the cat, looked round her little kitchen and said it was home sweet home.
Grammar
A fixed exclamation: nothing changes. It often stands alone or follows it's.
More idioms about home
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