hammer home

English

Pronunciation

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Verb

hammer home

(idiomatic) To repeatedly or continually emphasise (an opinion or idea) until or so that a person or group of people understands it.
The politicians seem to think that they have to hammer home every policy for the public to understand it: I would have thought we're more intelligent than that.

Synonyms

drive home

Translations

To repeatedly or continually emphasise

Russian: вда́лбливать (ru) impf (vdálblivatʹ), вдолби́ть (ru) impf (vdolbítʹ)

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