i newspaper, October 24, 2024
To be sure of my ground I looked up ‘hone in’ vs ‘home in’, and to my astonishment there are multiple sites which say they are interchangeable. That is rubbish. ‘Hone’ means to refine or sharpen, as with a knife or a skill. There is no expression to ‘hone in’. ‘Home in’ means to focus on or target, as in a heat-seeking ballistic missile.