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drive home

 
Idioms: drive home

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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The verb has 2 meanings:

Meaning #1: carry out or perform
  Synonym: deliver

Meaning #2: make clear by special emphasis and try to convince somebody of something
  Synonyms: ram home, press home


 
 

 

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Idioms. The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. Copyright © 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.  Read more
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