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Princeton's WordNet

  1. deliver, drive homeverb

    carry out or perform

    "deliver an attack", "deliver a blow"; "The boxer drove home a solid left"

  2. drive home, ram home, press homeverb

    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"

Wiktionary

  1. drive homeverb

    To push to or into a target.

  2. drive homeverb

    To emphasize (a point) with tangible or powerful demonstration.

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  1. drive home

    "Drive home" is an idiomatic phrase that generally means to emphasize, underline, or make a particular point or idea clearly understood. It can also be taken in a literal sense where it refers to the act of driving someone or oneself back to their home.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of drive home in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of drive home in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of drive home in a Sentence

  1. Aaron Kahn:

    We want to drive home our belief in Eddie's overall innocence and the fact that he's being persecuted as a good man, eddie's being demonized and not characterized as a good human being.

  2. Jeremy Ferguson:

    Absolutely, when an incident like this happens, it brings all the issues to light, how unsafe the rail industry truly is. I didn’t think we had any chance before this. The railroads and AAR do a very good job of lobbying in DC. So generally it’s difficult to get people to vote for something like this rule. But sometimes it takes a disaster to drive home the point. Any time you turn the TV on, there’s still an issue. It’s not going away.

  3. Deidre DeJear:

    I wouldn't call it a reboot because, for the most part, our campaign and how we've been building has been just that -- building, we're not tearing down anything that we've established thus far, it's just building upon that in order for us to just drive home her message.

  4. John Babcock:

    On my drive home, I probably pass seven or eight manufacturers that have one of our products outside their shipping dock door and it's primarily because they don't want drivers entering their building for deliveries.

  5. Emily Deschanel:

    It was a little bit of a shock, it was emotional. I burst into tears and choked up and said goodbye to people. It was really strange -- and then it took two hours to drive home.


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