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

“I still remember a silent drive home with my mother,” she said, “and then sitting in my bedroom…looking out the window at the sunset and wondering what it would be like, never seeing that again.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026

Surely it would be back by 5:30 p.m., when I needed to drive home.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 15, 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

I guess the three exclamation points drive home the drivel.

From Salon • Oct. 31, 2025

On the drive home, they could hardly talk from laughing and farting so hard.

From "A Monster Calls" by Patrick Ness