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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.â€Example Sentences
On the drive home, Ramona catches the woman’s notice without realizing it, then loses control of the car.
Why is that an important message to drive home to your male fans?
We probably spend half the drive home trying to keep our kids from falling asleep, because if they do, they’ll be up too late, and we hate that.
But Jones and Redgrave have such a consistency in how they play these skittish lovers that it drives home the point that their cruel, untamed condition doesn’t adhere to the niceties of narrative convention.
This departure from post-Berlin Wall universalist liberalism has been a long time in the making, and Vance’s incisive rebuke of European elites powerfully drove home the point.
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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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