to write home about

English

Adjective

to write home about

  1. Of significance; worth noticing or remarking upon.
    The food wasn't much to write home about: it was filthy slop.
    • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 15, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
      ‘No,’ said Luke, grinning at her. ‘You're not dull enough! […] What about the kid's clothes? I don't suppose they were anything to write home about, but didn't you keep anything? A bootee or a bit of embroidery or anything at all?’
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