home away from home
noun phrase
US
: 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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Montana will forever allow Taylor Kitsch to have a home away from home.
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Ingrid Vasquez, People.com, 22 Jan. 2025
This station, everyone who works here and all of you are truly my home away from home.
—Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 10 Feb. 2025
Dance The Cuban contemporary-dance troupe Malpaso Dance Company—skilled, sympathetic, but still searching for a strong identity—returns to its home away from home, the Joyce, for the tenth time.
—The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2025
First opening its doors in 1985, its been his home away from home since childhood.
—Julius Miller, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2025
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Ingrid Vasquez, People.com, 22 Jan. 2025
This station, everyone who works here and all of you are truly my home away from home.
—Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 10 Feb. 2025
Dance The Cuban contemporary-dance troupe Malpaso Dance Company—skilled, sympathetic, but still searching for a strong identity—returns to its home away from home, the Joyce, for the tenth time.
—The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2025
First opening its doors in 1985, its been his home away from home since childhood.
—Julius Miller, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2025
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“Home away from home.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/home%20away%20from%20home. Accessed 10 Mar. 2025.
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