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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



... easily as he had come up; but returned again in the course of the evening to offer her some civility; and it was Mr. Carlisle who put her mother and herself into their carriage. Eleanor looked for a remark from her mother on the subject during their drive home; but Mrs. ...
— The Old Helmet, Volume II • Susan Warner

... successful than his use of statistics was his use of the much-abused funny story. He never told a story, however good, for its own sake. He told it only when it would most effectively drive home whatever point he happened to be making. In this same speech he was saying that a Negro who is lazy and unreliable and does nothing to accumulate property or improve his earning capacity deserves no consideration from whites or blacks and has no right ...
— Booker T. Washington - Builder of a Civilization • Emmett J. Scott and Lyman Beecher Stowe

... hills,—there was no keeping track of them. The lad shouted and ran and ran and shouted till the sweat poured down his face, but he could not herd them back. By the time evening came he had scarce a score of them to drive home ...
— Tales of Folk and Fairies • Katharine Pyle

... wheezing confidences about the wood port which should properly be taken as a liqueur. He saw again the bridge-table with Gaymer, neat, immaculate and repellent, calling in a high nasal voice for Barbara to rejoin them. The drive home was a blank until he was galvanized by her leaning through the window and directing the coachman to Ryder Street. Thereafter facts gave place to emotions, and the other emotions to an incredulous elation ...
— The Education of Eric Lane • Stephen McKenna

... silent throughout the remainder of the drive home and Gillian made no effort to distract her. She herself felt disinclined to talk. She was oppressed by the knowledge that this was the last night she and Magda would have with each other. To-morrow Magda would be gone and one chapter of their ...
— The Lamp of Fate • Margaret Pedler


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