home thrust

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home thrust (plural home thrusts)

  1. A well-directed or effective thrust; one that wounds in a vital part.
  2. (figurative) A personal attack.
    • 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island:
      “I make it a point of honour not to lose a man for King George (God bless him!) and the gallows.”
      The rogues looked at each other but swallowed the home-thrust in silence.

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