away from home

idiom

: not at one's house
I will be away from home for two weeks.

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Following Boise State’s season-opening loss to South Florida in August, many fans began to question why the team opens away from home so frequently. Idaho Statesman, 7 Nov. 2025 Grace’s playfully feral wantonness is funny and bewitching, but her schtick loses its luster for Jackson, who takes a job that keeps him away from home, leaving her with the baby. Katie Walsh, Boston Herald, 6 Nov. 2025 Why are Newcastle so bad away from home? Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2025 The surveyors visited on a day Hill was away from home, and PSEG said his father called a Black security agent a racial slur, threatened to shoot the crew in the head and nearly hit a worker with an ATV. Bracey Harris, NBC news, 1 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for away from home

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“Away from home.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/away%20from%20home. Accessed 10 Nov. 2025.

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