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HOME is where the heart is
1870in &
Davy Crockett & Other Plays
(1940) 79
‘As I am to become an inmate of your home, give me a sort of a panoramic view.’..‘Well, home, they say, is where the heart is.’
1950
Pacific Spectator
IV. 91
‘Home is where the heart is,’ she said, ‘if you'll excuse the bromide [trite remark].’
1979
After You with Pistol
xxi.
‘Where is “home”, please,’ I asked … ‘Home's where the heart is,’ he said.
content and discontent;
home
home
see also
CHARITY begins at home
;
CURSES, like chickens, come home to roost
;
EAST, west, home's best
;
an ENGLISHMAN's house is his castle
;
GO abroad and you'll hear news of home
;
the LONGEST way round is the shortest way home
;
there's no PLACE like home
;
a WOMAN'S place is in the home
;
many go out for WOOL and come home shorn
.
CHARITY begins at home
;
CURSES, like chickens, come home to roost
;
EAST, west, home's best
;
an ENGLISHMAN's house is his castle
;
GO abroad and you'll hear news of home
;
the LONGEST way round is the shortest way home
;
there's no PLACE like home
;
a WOMAN'S place is in the home
;
many go out for WOOL and come home shorn
.
HOMER sometimes nods
Nobody, even a poet as great as the Greek epic writer Homer, can be at his best or most alert all the time.
Nods
here means ‘becomes drowsy, falls asleep’; hence,‘errs due to momentary lack of attention’. The source is HORACE
Ars Poetica
359
indignor quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus
, I am indignant when worthy Homer nods.
1387
tr.
Higden's Polychronicon
(1874) V. 57
He may take hede that the grete Homerus slepeth somtyme, for in a long work it is laweful to slepe som time.
1677
in
State of Innocence
B1
V
Horace acknowledges that honest Homer nods sometimes: he is not equally awake in every line.
1887
in
Nineteenth Century
Feb. 196
Scientific reason, like Homer, sometimes nods.
1979
Heberden's Seat
vi.
‘We're half asleep, not to have asked where they are before this.’ ‘Homer nods … You can't ask every question.’
error
Nods
here means ‘becomes drowsy, falls asleep’; hence,‘errs due to momentary lack of attention’. The source is HORACE
Ars Poetica
359
indignor quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus
, I am indignant when worthy Homer nods.
1387tr.
Higden's Polychronicon
(1874) V. 57
He may take hede that the grete Homerus slepeth somtyme, for in a long work it is laweful to slepe som time.
1677
in
State of Innocence
B1
V
Horace acknowledges that honest Homer nods sometimes: he is not equally awake in every line.
1887
in
Nineteenth Century
Feb. 196
Scientific reason, like Homer, sometimes nods.
1979
Heberden's Seat
vi.
‘We're half asleep, not to have asked where they are before this.’ ‘Homer nods … You can't ask every question.’
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