brought home

Verb

bring home (third-person singular simple present brings home, present participle bringing home, simple past and past participle brought home)

1. (idiomatic, transitive) To earn (money).
   • I bring home 10000 dollars a month.
2. (idiomatic) To make clearer or better understood.
   • War is the greatest of all agents of change. It speeds up all processes, wipes out minor distinctions, brings realities to the surface. Above all, war brings it home to the individual that he is not altogether an individual.1941, George Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn, Pt. III

   Synonyms:

   clarify, explain, illustrate

3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bring, home.
   • When, in July, 1897, my father brought home the first number of The Railway Magazine, I little thought that, sixty years later, I should still be reading it, without having missed a single number.1957 July, M. D. Greville, “A Diamond Jubilee of Railway Memories”, in Railway Magazine, page 458