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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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How to use drive home in a sentence

“Women have not been required to come here to St. Louis and then drive home and then drive back for the procedure,” Gianino says.
Abortion in Missouri Is the Wait of a Lifetime|Justin Glawe|November 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST
After 20 minutes, the time came for the New York guys to begin the drive home.
Boston and New York’s Bravest Are Brothers Bonded by Tragedy|Michael Daly|April 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST
To drive home that point, several senior officials have reached out to their Russian counterparts over the last 24 hours.
U.S. Threatens Russia With Retaliation on Edward Snowden|Josh Rogin|June 24, 2013|DAILY BEAST
But he did, eventually, drive home a few key points: Mike Daisey loves journalists, or “gremlins.”
Mike Daisey’s Monologue ‘Journalism’: This Is Not an Apology Tour|Winston Ross|May 22, 2013|DAILY BEAST

If George Allen's "macaca" moment didn't drive home the point, Scott Prouty's 47% video certainly should.
Say Goodbye to Basic Privacy|David Frum|March 18, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Each of the twelve drawings has a six-lined stanza to drive home the picture and inculcate a maxim of sound and refined behaviour.
Adventures and Enthusiasms|E. V. Lucas
Two footmen with flambeaux got up behind, and the coachman was ordered to drive home.
The Chronicles of Crime or The New Newgate Calendar. v. 1/2|Camden Pelham
He stepped to the door of the log hut, glanced in, and said, quickly: "Do you feel able to drive home?"
Beautiful Joe|Marshall Saunders
She was not in the least diffident when it came to facing Miss Reid, and she intended to drive home her point.
Marjorie Dean College Freshman|Pauline Lester
One truth was better fitted to drive home one lesson, and another argument to enforce another.
The Expositor's Bible: The Epistle to the Hebrews|Thomas Charles Edwards

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