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drive home
Idioms and Phrases
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.”Example Sentences
"This drives home to us just how important it is to have a good night's sleep at this important time in life," she said.
It was this email, along with another from young Journee that drove home what Lief and Rugh already felt in their bones: The show absolutely must go on.
To drive home the project’s intimacy, Macdonald carefully re-creates the couple’s New York apartment, the camera gliding across the space as we hear archival phone conversations.
On the drive home, Ramona catches the woman’s notice without realizing it, then loses control of the car.
Why is that an important message to drive home to your male fans?
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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