English Dictionary

hit home

verb

(idiomatic) To be especially memorable, meaningful, or significant; to be fully understood, believed or appreciated. / (of an attack, weapon, or projectile) To strike its target with damaging effect.

The movie's powerful message really hit home for me.

意味（1）

(idiomatic) To be especially memorable, meaningful, or significant; to be fully understood, believed or appreciated.

Do you think the message really hit home with him?

意味（2）

(of an attack, weapon, or projectile) To strike its target with damaging effect.

This revised situation doesn't go well for poor old Nagato. Whilst curls of smoke and scorch marks along the hulls and superstructures of Washington and Alabama do tell of some Japanese shells hitting home, neither of them seem particularly perturbed by this. Instead, their fire begins to overhaul the Japanese battleship, and, sooner or later, another salvo of 16-inch shells - no one's quite sure whether it comes from Alabama or Washington - smashes into the base of the superfiring aft turret.