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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.”
Example Sentences
The pair drove home in a daze, Andrew putting I Will Survive on the car's radio.
"Instead you got up, you drove your children to school... and drove home. And then you got rid of the dehydrator."
A personal trainer who caused a pile-up of police cars after fleeing from them while driving home from a first date has been sentenced to 14 months in a young offenders institution.
I was introduced to the work of the company through the radio program “The Play’s the Thing,” which I would listen to on Saturday nights on KPCC-FM, usually when driving home from the theater.
We hear it right away — the guy with this leg has a family, a pregnant wife, a daughter and, on their drive home, some car problems.
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