brings home

Makes clearly understood

Brings home means to earn and provide for a household: She brings home a good salary.

To bring home the bacon is to be the breadwinner.

The phrase also means to make something vividly clear or real: The documentary really brings home the scale of the disaster.

What brings something home is what makes you feel its impact personally.

Related

realization · reality check · achieves · accomplishes · understanding · emphasize · reveal · recognition · impart · conveys · affects · clarify · paycheck · wins · gold medal · bacon · resonates · underscore

Opposites
clarity and realization

brings homeobscures

Makes difficult to perceive

muddles · confuses · clouds · obfuscates · conceals

physical transport/provision

brings hometakes away

Removes or subtracts

removes · sends out · withholds · squanders · loses

emotional impact

brings homesoftens

Reduces intensity or hardness

cushions · distances · abstracts · diminishes · trivializes

Family

bring, brings, brought, bringing, bringer, home, homes, homed, homing

Familiarity
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Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G