Here are a few cliches or sayings with the word “home” in them.
- Home is where the heart is.
- There’s no place like home.
- Bring home the bacon.
- A man’s home is his castle.
- You can never go home again.
- Updates: Kim adds “homey”. As she explains, a homey is “a person who lives and works and stays close to home. I grew up in a college town and the homeys were kids who stayed in town for college and lived at home.”
- Also from Kim: home boy
- From Rosemary: Jiggity, jiggity, all the way home. Or as we used to say it, “Home again, home again, jigitty, jig!”
- Ellen B adds “home body.”
- Rosemary again: “Be it ever so humble, there’s no place like home.”
- I’m adding to my own list with “Make yourself at home.”
- Kim again: Mi casa, su casa
- Home, sweet home,
- Hearth and home, and
- Keep the home fires burning.
- From Janna: Eaten out of house and home.
- Tanya adds: Home is where you hang your hat.
- Me again: Home free.
- And a slew of them from threegirldad: Homeward bound
- Till the cows come home.
- The chickens have come home to roost.
- The lights are on, but nobody’s home.
- And his personal favorite (naturally): Just wait till your father gets home!
Can you think of others?