home away from home
Americanidiom
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a place, often visited, where one feels as comfortable as in their own home.
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a place one frequents so regularly or spends so much time there as to be considered, often humorously, a second home.
Example Sentences
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The Orion spacecraft is, at least for the next few days, the home away from home for the Artemis II astronauts.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026
For Diaco, the community have provided a home away from home.
From BBC • Mar. 15, 2026
Jaguars head coach Liam Coen, whose team hold the NFL's UK marketing rights, said "London is undoubtedly our home away from home".
From Barron's • Feb. 25, 2026
Often hailed as the sporting capital of the world, the city is a home away from home for New Zealand–born Racing Bulls driver Liam Lawson.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 2026
Then I crawled in and lay there for quite a long time trying out for size the expensive, confined, strangely new-smelling, entirely novel space that was soon to be my home away from home.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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