come home
Meanings
verb
- To return to one's house, or to any place of origin.
- To touch a person's interests or feelings closely; to be fully understood or realised.
- To drag or slip through the ground.
- To achieve success (typically by winning an international competition) in the country in which the sport was invented.
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Etymology
The sport usage was popularised by the 1996 song "Three Lions", which contains the phrase "it's coming home", referring to the UEFA Euro 1996 championship hosted in England, the birthplace of association football.
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