drive home

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.”

Example Sentences

The issue was first identified in Northern Ireland, where some families had flown out of the UK from Belfast, but then returned to Dublin – which is in the EU - before driving home over the border.

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“Everyone is thinking about ‘what if?’” she said, adding that she briefly considered having to drive home.

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The night before the trap was to be sprung, Beria and Khrushchev drove home from work together.

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I guess the three exclamation points drive home the drivel.

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Murphy and Brennan’s purported point in making this third chapter of “Monster” is to drive home how central Gein’s macabre case is to the horror genre.

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