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in one's own backyard
Idioms and Phrases
In one's own domain, in a position very close to one. For example, You didn't expect to find a first-class organist in your own backyard . [Mid-1900s] Also see close to home .Example Sentences
The article focused mostly on making composting in one's own backyard seem less intimidating.
But like many things experienced in one’s own backyard, Lansbury’s performance remains indestructible in memory.
Harris’s exhumation of busing was greeted over at Fox News with the delirium usually reserved for striking oil in one’s own backyard.
Phil Savignano, senior tourism officer, says it’s important for people to know that there’s always snow somewhere in Maine, even when it isn’t in one’s own backyard.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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