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there's no place like home

there's no place like home proverb: one feels most comfortable at home.

Proverb

there's no place like home

  1. One feels most comfortable at home.
    • Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home.

there's no place like home meaning in Arabic and Indonesian

there's no place like home in Arabic

one feels most comfortable at home
لَا مَكَان كَالْوَطَن lā makān ka-l-waṭan

there's no place like home in Indonesian

one feels most comfortable at home
rumahku surgaku, rumahku istanaku

Origin of there's no place like home

Popularized by the 1823 song Home! Sweet Home!, in which the phrase was used as a refrain. Popularized again, more recently, in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz.

Questions about there's no place like home

What does there's no place like home mean?
There's no place like home means one feels most comfortable at home.
What is there's no place like home in Arabic?
There's no place like home in Arabic is لَا مَكَان كَالْوَطَن (lā makān ka-l-waṭan). See There's no place like home meaning in Arabic.
What part of speech is there's no place like home?
There's no place like home is a proverb.

Words near there's no place like home in the dictionary

  1. there's no "there" there
  2. there's no accounting for taste
  3. there's no business like show business
  4. there's no fool like an old fool
  5. there's no I in team
  6. there's no place like home
  7. there's no point crying over spilt milk
  8. there's no shame in my game
  9. there's no smoke without fire
  10. there's no such thing as a free lunch
  11. there's no such thing as a stupid question

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