No Place Like Home

Illustration of a a greyish truck with a person in blue riding in the back on a yellow ground with a person in the foreground and something brownish in the background

“There’s no place like home” is an idiom meaning that one prefers their own home, town, or city over any other place on earth. It is widely associated with the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, but in fact the expression became popular over one hundred years prior to this. It appears in the last lines of the song ‘Home, Sweet Home,’ written in 1823 by John Payne and Sir Henry Bishop for the opera Clari. Sung at the end of the first act, the song was met with thunderous applause during its first performance at London’s Covent Garden, and from then on became popular in the English-speaking world.