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

What’s more fun is how Tipping finds gnarly ways to drive home his critical point, mostly through increasingly absurd interactions between Cameron and Isaiah.

From Salon • Sep. 19, 2025

He said residents had been targeted in sectarian attacks for several years and called for a multi-agency meeting to address the problems and "drive home the message that these communities deserve investment".

From BBC • Sep. 1, 2025

Ralph spent the better part of his drive home congratulating himself on his good fortune.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen