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Drive home   /draɪv hoʊm/   Listen
Drive home

verb
1.
Carry out or perform.  Synonym: deliver.  "Deliver a blow" , "The boxer drove home a solid left"
2.
Make clear by special emphasis and try to convince somebody of something.  Synonyms: press home, ram home.  "I'm trying to drive home these basic ideas"






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"Drive home" Quotes from Famous Books



... he was stung by the expression on her face which he did not understand. He went on vindictively snatching up to drive home his thrust the sharpest and cruelest weapon he could conceive, "Perhaps you ...
— The Brimming Cup • Dorothy Canfield Fisher

... my dear young sir, for this delightful drive home! I hope we shall meet again. We are off to Florence to-morrow; is there anything I can ...
— Serge Panine • Georges Ohnet

... bundle after bundle had been deposited on the cushions, and others ordered to be sent. But she was nearly through now, and just as it was beginning to grow dark in the streets she bade her coachman drive home, where dinner was waiting for her in the dining room, and her mother was waiting in the parlor. Mrs. McDonald was not very well, and had kept her room all day, but she was better that night, and came down to dine with her daughter. The ...
— Miss McDonald • Mary J. Holmes

... to hear Ferrer's opinion. Nothing seemed settled definitely until Ferrers had spoken, and only the Army and Matriculation classes had the tremendous advantages of doing English with him. Most of Ferrer's time was wasted in attempts to drive home mathematical theories into the dense brain ...
— The Loom of Youth • Alec Waugh

... believe the wind is in the south at all. But you always were a funny boy, Tommy. If you are very good you will see some pretty fireworks presently. As for myself, I shall have to drive home ...
— South Wind • Norman Douglas


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