drive home

Idioms  

1. 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.”

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Example Sentences

He said his “coarse” language was necessary to drive home the point.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 17, 2026

“I still remember a silent drive home with my mother,” she said, “and then sitting in my bedroom…looking out the window at the sunset and wondering what it would be like, never seeing that again.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026

Then I bought her a dried bundle of lavender, and we made the long drive home in high spirits.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 9, 2026

I guess the three exclamation points drive home the drivel.

From Salon • Oct. 31, 2025

On the drive home, try as they might, her daughters could not engage their mother in conversation, for inspired by what she had just seen, Laura had begun inventing.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez