English in a Minute: Phrases with 'home'
Learning English Vocabulary
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🗓️ 22 October 2025
⏱️ 1 minutes
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Summary
Get comfy, make yourself a hot drink – make yourself at home! Learn 'make yourself at home' and more in this podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:06.0 | You're listening to BBC LearningEnglish.com. |
| 0:10.9 | Ah, this studio. Home sweet home. Let's learn four phrases with home. |
| 0:19.3 | Now, this studio is not my home, but when I arrive at my real home, I might say, ah, home |
| 0:25.5 | sweet home, to express relief and happiness after time away. Home sweet home, now I can finally |
| 0:31.7 | relax after a long day at work. If you have guests in your home and you want them to feel comfortable, |
| 0:37.2 | you could say, make yourself at home. This invites them to treat your home and you want them to feel comfortable, you could say, |
| 0:38.1 | make yourself at home. This invites them to treat your home as if it's their own. |
| 0:42.7 | Come in, help yourself to snacks, take a seat on the sofa, make yourself at home. |
| 0:47.9 | If something is nothing to write home about, it means it's ordinary and unexciting. |
| 0:53.1 | My weekend? |
| 0:55.4 | Nothing to write home about. |
| 0:57.7 | I just did some housework and watch TV. |
| 0:59.8 | If you're on the home stretch, |
| 1:01.9 | it means you're on the last bit of the journey, |
| 1:03.8 | literally or metaphorically. |
| 1:06.9 | Our home renovation has taken two years, |
| 1:08.3 | but it's almost finished now. |
| 1:09.7 | We're on the home stretch. |
| 1:12.5 | Now, learn these phrases and make sure your vocabulary is something to write home about. |
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