back home

idiom

: in one's hometown : in the place one is from

People back home would never believe how much he has changed.

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Overly precocious George jumps from the train to the countryside and, in true Dickensian fashion, encounters some helpful people as well as some unsavory types on his treacherous trek back home. —

Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2024 But with Rain, Mongolian Horse and Fishbone all awaiting a domestic theater release, Qiu, for one, remains unconvinced that festival praise will lead to box office back home. —

Mathew Scott, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Nov. 2024 Some critics back home were less receptive to the speech, which some local media covered from afar. —

Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN, 4 Nov. 2024 After being evacuated out of London on a train with other children for safekeeping, George immediately runs away and perilously heads back home to his munitions worker mom, Rita (Saoirse Ronan), and musical grandfather Gerald Hanway (Paul Weller of The Jam). —

Bill Desowitz, IndieWire, 4 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for back home