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away from home

idiom

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

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Courtesy of Netflix Robert spends months at a time away from home, doing treacherous work. Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 21 Nov. 2025 Or a lot like being a kid in a candy store, except the kid was a college freshman, living 2,500 miles away from home, in desperate need of new friends, incredibly susceptible to peer pressure; the store was the fraternity house; and the candy was alcohol and cigarettes. Théoden Janes, Charlotte Observer, 19 Nov. 2025 Even the minimum requirement — qualifying for the Champions League — depends on it because six points out of a possible 18 away from home so far is pitiful. James Pearce, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2025 When the ship sank in 1975, the younger O’Brien was 17 and away from home for his first semester of college. Violet Ikonomova, Freep.com, 9 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 30 Nov. 2025.

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