definitions

drive home

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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RELATED WORDS

stress, set, fix, inculcate, press, establish, instill, reiterate, continue, drudge, endeavor, grind, instruct, persevere, persist, repeat, work

Nearby words

drivage, drive, drive a hard bargain, drive a nail into one's coffin, drive at, drive home, drive screw, drive shaft, drive someone crazy, drive time, drive to drink
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