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drive at

British  

verb

  1. informal (intr, preposition) to intend or mean

    what are you driving at?
"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
drive at Idioms  

  1. Mean to do or say, as in I don't understand what he's driving at. Today this idiom, first recorded in 1579, is used mainly with the participle driving.

Example Sentences

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“But we are aiming for that level four autonomy, where you don’t have to drive at all.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2026

Equally, these statistics don't tell us whether some people are choosing not to drive at night and nor do they account for other changes in driver behaviour.

From BBC • Feb. 18, 2026

Then came Harry Brook's brain fade when set on 31 - flaying a wild drive at pink-ball maestro Mitchell Starc to second slip in the twilight.

From BBC • Dec. 20, 2025

It might be tempting to drive at those times to beat traffic, but it will increase your crash risk.

From Slate • Nov. 26, 2025

He had in fact passed out when he’d given blood for the first time, at a blood drive at Arbel he’d signed up for because it had been an excused absence from gym that week.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny

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