In one's own territory or area of knowledge or experience.
‘I feel relaxed if I'm interviewed on my own ground’
‘When a tragedy occurs on our own ground, our own territory, we identify with it much more.’
‘‘It will be nice to play on our own ground and play friendly matches with other clubs in the area,’ said the club chairman.’
‘We are going there with their record of not having lost on their own ground and it will be a difficult game.’
‘It had been an extremely brave move to host the game on their own ground but those officials who made such a bold decision must have been glad they stuck to their guns against many advisers who urged them to play elsewhere.’
‘And we are so pleased at being able to stage it on our own ground - the manager thinks it will give us a better chance of causing an upset.’
‘There are so many things that I know nothing about, but with emotional stuff like music, I know how to do it, I'm on my own ground.’
‘There's another factor at work here, a kind of commercial disingenuity that aims to befuddle the listener on his own ground.’
‘As a fiction writer, you meet those myths on their own ground - the mental space in which memories, traditions, and dreams interact - and you address them in their own language of evocative symbolism.’
‘Learn to analyze rumors in terms of the anxieties or other attitudes that are behind them, then tackle them on their own ground.’
‘Lewis, whose academic qualifications were first class, challenged intellectuals on their own ground.’
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