drive home
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drive home
verb drives home · driving home · drove home · driven home
- To push something into position completely by force. He grunted as he drove each nail home.
- To emphasize (a point) with tangible or powerful demonstration. She had dropped sideways in Gerty's big arm-chair, her head buried where lately Selden's had leaned, in a beauty of abandonment that drove home to Gerty's aching senses the inevitableness of her own defeat.
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Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see drive, home.
He decided not to drive home right away.
Similar: hammer home, ram home
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verb 2. to emphasise
| Español | hacer llegar, allegar, poner de relieve |
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verb 1. to force something into position
| עברית | תָּחַב takhav |
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verb 3. drive home
| Español | llevar al hogar en carro |
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