The phrase "strike home" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this phrase to describe when a point has a particularly powerful effect on someone or something. For example, "The teacher's words really struck home, and the student was inspired to work harder."
So May will strike home with this.
It's chilling when his predictions strike home.
But his barbed remarks are true enough to strike home, and wicked enough to be memorable.
He is a Tom who peeps and gazes but finally fails to strike home.
The images are vague and disorienting, but they strike home in uncanny ways.
Sometimes when you read, it's like certain sentences strike home and knock you flat.
His two-strike home run down the right-field line never got very high off the ground, and just barely hooked inside the foul pole.
This thrilling back-and-forth game was accented throughout by other perfect and near-perfect plays, like Napoli's throw to Kinsler to nail Austin Jackson attempting to steal second base in the bottom of the 10th, or Tigers third baseman Brandon Inge's two-out, two-strike home run off the previously impenetrable Alexi Ogando that tied the score, 3-3, in the seventh inning.
If this blog could simulate exploding lights and summon up epic soundtrack music, we would recreate the scene from the movie version of "The Natural," after Roy Hobbs hits a ninth-inning, two-out, two-strike home run, for John Reinhart, of Fredericksburg, Virginia.
By Eric Lach September 16, 2009 If this blog could simulate exploding lights and summon up epic soundtrack music, we would recreate the scene from the movie version of "The Natural," after Roy Hobbs hits a ninth-inning, two-out, two-strike home run, for John Reinhart, of Fredericksburg, Virginia.
That allowed the Phillies to claw their way back, cutting the deficit to 2-1 in the fourth inning when Darin Ruf hit a two-out, two-strike home run on a Ricky Nolasco splitter.
