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home ground

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home ground
n.
1. One's familiar surroundings or habitat.
2. An area of special strength or competence: a company that never expected to be challenged on its home ground of software development.
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Noun1.home groundhome ground - the type of environment in which an organism or group normally lives or occurs; "a marine habitat"; "he felt safe on his home grounds"
environs, surround, surroundings, environment - the area in which something exists or lives; "the country--the flat agricultural surround"
habitation - the native habitat or home of an animal or plant
Translations
Spanish home ground n to be on home ground → estar en su etc terreno
French home ground n to be on home ground → ĂȘtre sur son terrain
German home ground n (Sport) → eigener Platz m;
to be on home ground (fig) → sich auf vertrautem Terrain bewegen

Italian home ground n (fig): to be on home ground → essere sul proprio terreno

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So not only do al-Jazeera's reporters know the northern patch of Israel like home ground (because it is home ground) but they are also not cravenly waiting for the Israeli Prime Minister's Office and army's spokesman to tell them what is going on.
The club uses the Oval--now the Brit Oval--as its home ground.
The shadow line, for Conrad, was that boundary over which one crosses into maturity, and Shanahan evidently regarded the show as marking a certain coming of age as well as a return to home ground.
 
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