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
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
And she had reason to be optimistic: Cortina was her home away from home, the place where she had won an unprecedented 12 World Cup races.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 8, 2026
The Football Association pulled out all of the stops to give England what captain Leah Williamson called "a home away from home".
From BBC • Jul. 28, 2025
Only Titans would see such a beautiful place as a potential outpost of the abyss—a hellish home away from home.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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