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 would've been quite happy to get in my car and drive home, I was absolutely seething," said Carter afterwards.

From BBC ● Apr. 26, 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

He said his “coarse” language was necessary to drive home the point.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2026

“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

On the drive home, we all wept, unable to console each other, for my sisters had heard the same grim news from Pedrito and Leandro.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez