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Definition of Drive home
1. Verb. Carry out or perform. "The boxer drove home a solid left"
2. Verb. Make clear by special emphasis and try to convince somebody of something. "I'm trying to drive home these basic ideas"
Generic synonyms: Accent, Accentuate, Emphasise, Emphasize, Punctuate, Stress
Definition of Drive home
1. Verb. (transitive) To push to or into a target. ¹
2. Verb. (idiomatic transitive) To emphasize (a point) with tangible or powerful demonstration. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Drive Home
Literary usage of Drive home
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Our Tropical Possessions in Malayan India: Being a Descriptive Account of by John Cameron (1865)
"... Beauty of Scenery — Breakfast — Drive to Town—Business—Tiffin—Fives Court—The
Band—drive home—Dinner—Its substantial Nature —After-dinner Amusements. ..."
2. Fighting in Flanders by Edward Alexander Powell (1914)
"... pictures that can be painted, than all the books that can be written, to drive
home a realization of what is meant by that dreadful thing called War. ..."
3. The Life and Travels of General Grant by Joel Tyler Headley (1879)
"... OF FARE—FIREWORKS AND ILLUMINATION—SINGING GIRLS—THE SCENERY—drive home.
GENERAL GRANT had planned a trip to the Great Wall of China while in Pekin, ..."
4. Sporting Adventures in the New World, Or, Days and Nights of Moose-hunting by Campbell Hardy (1855)
"... Bull-Frog—A Commotion in the Pond—Return to Halifax—The drive home. IT was on
one of those delicious mornings, about the middle of June, when the summer ..."
5. A Woman Rice Planter by Elizabeth Waties Allston Pringle (1913)
"As it was too late for me to take the long drive home alone I went into Woodstock
and spent the night with my brother. Prince George Winyah. ..."
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