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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drive home

Mezzo Kelsey Lauritano’s Erika got a few lyrical moments, including her signature aria, “Must the winter come so soon,” which was briefly reprised—unnecessarily—to drive home the bleakness of the ending.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 18, 2026

"I would've been quite happy to get in my car and drive home, I was absolutely seething," said Carter afterwards.

From BBC ● Apr. 26, 2026

He insists the row was not serious enough to dent his "amazing relationship" with Belgium -- throwing in a mildly off-colour joke about circumcision to drive home the point.

From Barron's ● Apr. 21, 2026

Surely it would be back by 5:30 p.m., when I needed to drive home.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 15, 2026

I tell Roli all about the movie on the drive home, just in case Mami and Papi ask.

From "Merci Suárez Changes Gears" by Meg Medina