His sarcastic comments really hit home!

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El-Che  #227008  Fri, 19 May 06 08:35 PM
Hi there...
 
"His sarcastic comments really hit home! "
"She talks until the cows come home"
"My father brings the home bacon"
"After the 85th Minutes, Rejkard was home and dry"
 
What does this sentences mean?
 
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Philip  #227023  Fri, 19 May 06 09:31 PM
 El-Che wrote:
Hi there...
 
"His sarcastic comments really hit home! "
"She talks until the cows come home"
"My father brings the home bacon"
"After the 85th Minutes, Rejkard was home and dry"
 
What does this sentences mean?
 
Thx.
 

1.  "Really hit(s) home" means that the comments were very appropriate.

2.  "Until the cows come home" means "endlessly", as until after dark when the cows come back to the farm from grazing in the pasture.

3.  "Bacon" here refers to money.

4. "Home" means home, or wherever he wanted to be; "dry" being safe, as opposed to drenched in a rainstorm.

 

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CalifJim  #227116  Sat, 20 May 06 02:59 AM
as until after dark when the cows come back to the farm from grazing in the pasture

Really?  I would have said that cows are not intelligent enough to know where home is.  They need to be rounded up and herded back to the barn because they'll never come home on their own.  That's why the expression means "endlessly" or "forever", and not just "a long time".

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Philip  #227123  Sat, 20 May 06 03:45 AM
 CalifJim wrote:
as until after dark when the cows come back to the farm from grazing in the pasture

Really?  I would have said that cows are not intelligent enough to know where home is.  They need to be rounded up and herded back to the barn because they'll never come home on their own.  That's why the expression means "endlessly" or "forever", and not just "a long time".

CJ
Well, I never said that they didn't have "help" in getting there.  However, the cows, who need to be milked, know where to go when they're uncomfortable......spend a summer on a Colorado farm and you'll agree with me.
  
Marius Hancu  #227135  Sat, 20 May 06 04:44 AM
El-Che:
It's worthwhile to go first to this site
[link]
and search for your idioms by using some of the keywords

e.g. with
home
you will find
two of your idioms here



  
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Inchoateknowledge  #227178  Sat, 20 May 06 07:44 AM
to hit home in the sentence probably means the speaker was not backward in comming forward and that he said some home truths, with which he hit the nail on the head.
he laid it on the line.



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El-Che  #227269  Sat, 20 May 06 04:07 PM
 Marius Hancu wrote:
El-Che:
It's worthwhile to go first to this site
[link]
and search for your idioms by using some of the keywords

e.g. with
home
you will find
two of your idioms here

 
Thank you very much for this link, i think it will be very usefull.
  
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