home away from home

noun phrase

: a place that is as pleasant and comfortable as one's own home

Whenever he came to the city, his brother's place was like a home away from home.

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Walk along brick sidewalks and up steps lined with potted plants and step into your South End home away from home. —

Kristi Kellogg, Architectural Digest, 21 Oct. 2024 In a section designed as a home away from home for the National Art Gallery of the Bahamas (NAGB), where Cox was formerly chief curator, an installation is underway devoted to the painter Kendal Hanna, who died last summer. —

Jesse Ashlock, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Dec. 2024 The Del Coronado by then already was known as home away from home for the industry’s elite. —

Ingrid Schmidt, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Dec. 2024 Oppenheimer wanted to make a vérité portrait of what their life would be like in this home away from home a quarter of a century from now. —

David Fear, Rolling Stone, 4 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for home away from home

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