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Difference between Go home and Go in a home

go home—(also: get home) become quite clear to a person:

  • His calculated sarcasm went home like the sharp point of a rapier.

Note: The expression does not fully correlate in meaning with the phrase come home

1. = go home:

  • The ideal of equality would come home with special meaning to men bred up on the frontier.

2. (also: come home to roost) return by way of retribution:

  • Eventually every single problem you have avoided dealing with will come home.

go in a homemove into an institution such as old people’s home, providing refuge and care:

  • My personal experience with my father was, he was adamant he did not want to go in a home.