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

Lee, who had been at the plant since 2021, boxed up her belongings and drove home.

From The Wall Street Journal

And then we drove home, back down the snowy shoulders of the mountains.

From The Wall Street Journal

Episode one drives home the amount of work it takes to make art appear effortless.

From BBC

“I can’t even think about my life tonight. The drive home scares me. Coming to campus scares me. Walking from my car terrifies me. I live my life between breaths.”

From Los Angeles Times

She didn’t panic until, driving home, she heard on the radio that the victims were employees of the desert city’s environmental health department.

From Los Angeles Times