Drive Home Meaning
(idiomatic, transitive) To emphasize (a point) with tangible or powerful demonstration.
Example: 1969, James Plunkett, Strumpet City: A Novel, page 396
He grunted as he drove each nail home.
1996, Harry Harrison, One King's Way, page 186
Karli shook himself, drove home the last nail with a flat stone, straightened up.
2004, Judith Tarr, Queen of the Amazons, page 293
Just as Ione began to slow, she struck Ione's sword aside and drove her own blade home.
“I do what I likeâ€, he said, and — just to drive home the point — he spat on the newly-cleaned floor.
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