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drive something home

(to someone) Fig. to emphasize an important point about something (to someone). The teacher repeated the point three times just to drive it home. I hope this really drives the importance of safety home to you. The accident drove home the importance of wearing seatbelts to everyone concerned.

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With a sinking heart he watched Dolokhov's hands and thought, "Now then, make haste and let me have this card and I'll take my cap and drive home to supper with Denisov, Natasha, and Sonya, and will certainly never touch a card again. War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context There came three months of mental worry, hard rolling, remorse, and physical pain to drive home the lesson of insufficient experience. The Mirror of the Sea by Conrad, Joseph View in context The drive home restored him somewhat, but he wee still full of his surprise when he rejoined Agatha, his wife, and Erskine in the drawing-room at the Beeches. An Unsocial Socialist by Shaw, George Bernard View in context			drink to excess drink under the table drink up Drink up! drip drip in drip into drip with drive drive a coach and horses through drive a hard bargain drive a price down drive a price up drive a wedge between drive around drive around the bend drive at drive away drive back drive back on drive back to drive batty drive between drive crazy drive down drive home drive in drive into drive into a corner drive into the ground drive off drive on drive one out of mind drive out drive over drive round the bend drive round the twist Drive Safely drive through drive to despair drive to distraction drive to do drive to drink drive to the edge drive up drive up the wall driven driver driving drizzle down drone			Drive Carefully drive census Drive chain Drive chain Drive Channel Tire Pressure drive chuck Drive Configuration Overlay drive control Drive Controlled Disk Sanitization Drive controller Drive controller drive crazy Drive Cycle Analysis Drive Discharge Model Drive Dive Drink Diary drive door drive down Drive Electronics Unit Drive enclosure Drive End drive firmly in drive fit Drive Fitness Test Drive Floppy 0 Drive for Diversity drive from one’s native land drive home Drive Image Drive Image Professional Drive Image Special Edition Drive Impedance Phase drive in drive in drive in Drive In Theatre Maintenance Company Drive In Theatre Manufacturing Company Drive In, Drive Out drive insane drive into drive into drive into a corner drive into the ground drive into the middle of nowhere drive into the sand drive into the sand drive into the sand Drive It Like You Stole It Drive letter Drive Letter Access Drive letter assignment drive level dependency drive light Drive Like Jehu drive line drive line system Drive Lock Assembly

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