home on
home on (to something)
Fig. to aim directly at something; to fix some type of receiver on a signal source. The navigator homed onto the radio beam from the airport. The navigator located the beam and homed on.
See also: home, on
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
- bottom of it, at the/get to the
- give (one) the fig
- shed light on, to
- home in
- palm off, to
- save for a rainy day, to
- go to one's head, to
- keep an eye on, to
- get one's teeth into (something), to
- take by storm, to