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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drive home

I put Bill Conti’s soaring “Gonna Fly Now” on repeat during the drive home.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026

Fernandes kept his nerve to drive home his second attempt and then, in a frenzied atmosphere, Matheus Cunha scored twice in the final seven minutes.

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026

On the long, twisting drive home, I was so exhausted by the turbulent conversation going on in my head.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

“They may be more confident in theory than they are in practice,” so identifying a specific amount they’d lose can drive home the price of too much risk.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026

A mix of cologne and the cigar he always smoked on the drive home.

From "The Red Umbrella" by Christina Gonzalez

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