"A Little too close to home"

Cliff10 | 21:13 Sat 17th Jan 2009 | Word Origins

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What is your interpretation of this saying?
Is it accusative if something is missing and you are being asked?

Smitch or smich?

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Huderon

I'd say it is sort of accusative. depending on the phrasing of the question, the questioner thinks that you, or someone close to you, may well be the guilty party.

Oh and it could be used for all manner of things, not just missing items.

fredpuli47

Only if you've just made a partial admission or looked guilty when something was said about whatever is missing.The expression is normally used to mean 'a little too close to the truth' when someone, A,usually inadvertently, says something which embarrasses or irritates somebody else,B, because it happens to be on a sensitive subject, close to the truth about B's feelings or some actual fact which they'd rather not think or talk about .Then we observe ' That was a little too close to home"

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