Much as Mark Zuckerberg would like to add China's billion-plus residents to Facebook, his most pressing reason for learning Mandarin was far closer to home.
close to home
having a direct personal effect on you Her novel about a teenager's drug addiction hit a little too close to
home for my taste.
Related vocabulary: hit homehome for my taste.
Usage notes: usually said about something that upsets or embarrasses you, and often used with the verb hit as in the example
cathedral close
Friends who had taken his finances in hand in the 1970s helped make him comfortably well off. In addition to the yacht Morning Cloud, Heath owned a modest terrace house in Wilton Street, Belgravia, and another, much more magnificent and dating from Queen Anne, in Salisbury's Cathedral Close.
close (ROAD) Show phonetics
noun [C] UK
a road, usually with private houses, which vehicles can only enter from one end:
He lives at 83 Barker Close.
closeAn enclosed place, especially land surrounding or beside a cathedral or other building.
close in1
1.2(Of days) get successively shorter with theapproach of the winter solstice:November was closing in
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