"America at home" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Originally, and literally, the state of enjoying the comfortable life associated with emigrating to America while remaining \"at home\" in Ireland (thus having the best of both worlds). E.g.:\n* Conyngham Crawford Taylor (1887) The Queen's jubilee and Toronto \"called back\" from 1887 to 1847, page 387: “As landlords in Canada expect their tenants to pay their rent when due, Mr. Kilbride would not improve his position by emigrating to this country, as, to use a common Irish expression, he appears to have a \"very good America at home.\"”\n* 1971, Thomas P. Flanagan, Seanad Éireann debates 19 May 1971 Vol.70 no.4 p.5 c.292:\n*: She asked me if I was the man who was in charge of the turf production and I said I was. She began to praise me and bless me because she said they had England and America at home. In other words, the earnings from turf production on a family basis were equivalent to what they would have got in England and America if the family had emigrated.",
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      "args": {
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      },
      "expansion": "America at home (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Irish English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1962 October 6, Edna O'Brien, “Come Into The Drawing Room, Doris [later retitled \"Irish Revel\"]”, in The New Yorker, page 52",
          "text": "\"Tis America at home,\" Hickey said, putting turf on the smoking fire.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1979, Edna O'Brien, “A Woman by the Seaside”, in A Rose in the Heart (short story collection), page 111:",
          "text": "\"Tis America at home,\" James said as he nodded to the waitress for more coffees.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1990, John McGahern, Amongst Women, page 62",
          "text": "Lemonade was poured into glasses and the meal was toasted. 'This is America at home,' Moran boasted. Bowls of trifle followed. 'We'll burst!' He and everybody were happy.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2000, Christopher Nolan, The Banyan Tree, page 177‑8",
          "text": "[…]the water when it rained filled up the tank and then we could flush away our doosie. Do-be, it was America at home, let me tell you, but then when the fine weather came it was up the ladder and down, bringing pump water up to fill the tank[…]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The height of luxury, comfort, or modernity."
      ],
      "id": "en-America_at_home-en-noun-IMw7Jzbq",
      "links": [
        [
          "height",
          "height"
        ],
        [
          "luxury",
          "luxury"
        ],
        [
          "comfort",
          "comfort"
        ],
        [
          "modernity",
          "modernity"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Ireland, informal, dated) The height of luxury, comfort, or modernity."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Ireland",
        "dated",
        "informal",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "America at home"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Originally, and literally, the state of enjoying the comfortable life associated with emigrating to America while remaining \"at home\" in Ireland (thus having the best of both worlds). E.g.:\n* Conyngham Crawford Taylor (1887) The Queen's jubilee and Toronto \"called back\" from 1887 to 1847, page 387: “As landlords in Canada expect their tenants to pay their rent when due, Mr. Kilbride would not improve his position by emigrating to this country, as, to use a common Irish expression, he appears to have a \"very good America at home.\"”\n* 1971, Thomas P. Flanagan, Seanad Éireann debates 19 May 1971 Vol.70 no.4 p.5 c.292:\n*: She asked me if I was the man who was in charge of the turf production and I said I was. She began to praise me and bless me because she said they had England and America at home. In other words, the earnings from turf production on a family basis were equivalent to what they would have got in England and America if the family had emigrated.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "America at home (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English dated terms",
        "English informal terms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Irish English"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1962 October 6, Edna O'Brien, “Come Into The Drawing Room, Doris [later retitled \"Irish Revel\"]”, in The New Yorker, page 52",
          "text": "\"Tis America at home,\" Hickey said, putting turf on the smoking fire.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1979, Edna O'Brien, “A Woman by the Seaside”, in A Rose in the Heart (short story collection), page 111:",
          "text": "\"Tis America at home,\" James said as he nodded to the waitress for more coffees.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1990, John McGahern, Amongst Women, page 62",
          "text": "Lemonade was poured into glasses and the meal was toasted. 'This is America at home,' Moran boasted. Bowls of trifle followed. 'We'll burst!' He and everybody were happy.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2000, Christopher Nolan, The Banyan Tree, page 177‑8",
          "text": "[…]the water when it rained filled up the tank and then we could flush away our doosie. Do-be, it was America at home, let me tell you, but then when the fine weather came it was up the ladder and down, bringing pump water up to fill the tank[…]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The height of luxury, comfort, or modernity."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "height",
          "height"
        ],
        [
          "luxury",
          "luxury"
        ],
        [
          "comfort",
          "comfort"
        ],
        [
          "modernity",
          "modernity"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Ireland, informal, dated) The height of luxury, comfort, or modernity."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Ireland",
        "dated",
        "informal",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "America at home"
}