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carry out or perform
deliver an attack
The boxer drove home a solid left
deliver a blow -
make clear by special emphasis and try to convince somebody of something
drive home a point or an argument
I'm trying to drive home these basic ideas
How To Use drive home In A Sentence
- We must drive home to him where the difficulties lie.
- Besides cleaning up barf, breaking up fights and propping up staggering patrons, owners and waiters can get sued if overly-lubricated lushes kill or injure someone on their drive home.
- Myrtle was instantly killed, but Daisy kept going before she past out and Gatsby was forced to take the wheel and drive home.
- Passed a hawk on a reflector post on the drive home, and it wasn't a roughleg! Grouse Diary Entry
- Mark can't possibly drive home in that condition .
- Some important terms were introduced - e.g. 'emic' and 'etic' - but not taken to enough depth in examples to drive home the deeper implications. PLIGG_Visual_Name - PLIGG_Visual_RSS_All
- Ever since the present dispensation took over, ministers concerned have been trying to drive home the fact at every given opportunity that the elections due to the said institutions would be held as soon as possible.
- The drive home was horrendous, with repeated hold-ups and long, long tailbacks.
- Polly went out through the back of fice to retrieve her car and drive home, which I understood was a house in a wood outside the town, and my father and I, bolting everything securely, climbed the steep little staircase and slept utldisturbed until Saturday mortling. Penalty
- Call your house and tell them you're staying at a friend's house because you don't want to drive home and stay the night with me.
