Usually means: Hits emotionally near personal experience.
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We found 13 dictionaries that define the word close to home:

General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. close to home: Merriam-Webster
  2. close to home: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. close to home: Wiktionary
  4. close to home: Dictionary.com
  5. Close to Home (UK TV series), Close to Home (album), Close to Home (band), Close to Home (comic strip), Close to Home (novel), Close to home: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. close to home: TheFreeDictionary.com
  7. close to home: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. close to home: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. close to home: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. close to home: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. close to home: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (close to home)

adverb:  (idiomatic) Affecting people close to, or within, one's family circle.
adverb:  (figurative) Affecting one personally through deep familiarity.

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