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home Home Counties the English counties surrounding London, into which London has extended. They comprise chiefly Essex, Kent, Surrey, and Hertfordshire.Home Guard the British citizen army organized in 1940 to defend the UK against invasion, finally disbanded in 1957.
home is home, as the Devil said when he found himself in the Court of Session Scottish proverbial saying, mid 19th century; the Court of Session is the supreme civil tribunal of Scotland, established in 1532.
home is home though it's never so homely no place can compare with one's own home (the archaic phrase never so means ‘ever so’ or ‘very’). The saying is recorded from the mid 16th century.
home is where the heart is one's true home is wherever the person one loves most is; proverbial saying, late 19th century.
home of lost causes a name for Oxford; originally a quotation from Matthew Arnold's Essays in Criticism (1865).
home rule the government of a colony, dependent country, or region by its own citizens, in particular as advocated for Ireland 1870–1914. The campaign for Irish home rule was one of the dominant forces in British politics in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
See also charity begins at home, east, west, home's best, go abroad and you'll hear news of home, there's no place like home, when one's ship comes home.
home is home, as the Devil said when he found himself in the Court of Session Scottish proverbial saying, mid 19th century; the Court of Session is the supreme civil tribunal of Scotland, established in 1532.
home is home though it's never so homely no place can compare with one's own home (the archaic phrase never so means ‘ever so’ or ‘very’). The saying is recorded from the mid 16th century.
home is where the heart is one's true home is wherever the person one loves most is; proverbial saying, late 19th century.
home of lost causes a name for Oxford; originally a quotation from Matthew Arnold's Essays in Criticism (1865).
home rule the government of a colony, dependent country, or region by its own citizens, in particular as advocated for Ireland 1870–1914. The campaign for Irish home rule was one of the dominant forces in British politics in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
See also charity begins at home, east, west, home's best, go abroad and you'll hear news of home, there's no place like home, when one's ship comes home.
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