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

To drive home that point, Visa has been highlighting revenue it generates from what it calls value-added services, or VAS.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 4, 2026

He insists the row was not serious enough to dent his "amazing relationship" with Belgium -- throwing in a mildly off-colour joke about circumcision to drive home the point.

From Barron's • Apr. 21, 2026

The singer unknowingly provided the soundtrack for that "first drive home that every parent cherishes".

From BBC • Mar. 12, 2026

Exhilarated and inspired, she bonds with Kitty, who will remember none of it when she wakes up the next morning at Beth’s, including the song they wrote together on the drive home.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 14, 2026

She even let us stay in one of the apartments so we wouldn’t have to drive home.

From "The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora" by Pablo Cartaya