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drive home
Idioms and Phrases
Make clearly understood, make a point, as in The network news programs drive home the fact that violence is part of urban life . This expression uses the verb drive in the sense of “force by a blow or thrust” (as in driving a nail). Samuel Hieron used it in Works (1607): “That I may ... drive home the nail of this exhortation even to the head.”Example Sentences
“Women have not been required to come here to St. Louis and then drive home and then drive back for the procedure,” Gianino says.
After 20 minutes, the time came for the New York guys to begin the drive home.
To drive home that point, several senior officials have reached out to their Russian counterparts over the last 24 hours.
But he did, eventually, drive home a few key points: Mike Daisey loves journalists, or “gremlins.”
If George Allen's "macaca" moment didn't drive home the point, Scott Prouty's 47% video certainly should.
Each of the twelve drawings has a six-lined stanza to drive home the picture and inculcate a maxim of sound and refined behaviour.
Two footmen with flambeaux got up behind, and the coachman was ordered to drive home.
He stepped to the door of the log hut, glanced in, and said, quickly: "Do you feel able to drive home?"
She was not in the least diffident when it came to facing Miss Reid, and she intended to drive home her point.
One truth was better fitted to drive home one lesson, and another argument to enforce another.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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