hail from

[hail from] {v.}, {informal} To have your home in; come from; be from; especially, to have been born and raised in.

* /Mrs. Gardner hails from Mississippi./

* /Mr. Brown and Mr. White are old friends because they both hail from the same town./

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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