hammer home en · VERB
Pronunciation
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Meanings
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(idiomatic) To repeatedly or continually emphasize (an opinion or idea) until or so that a person or group of people understands it.
Our instructor would hammer home the point that safety was most important.
Seeing that it was withdrawn in perfectly good working order hammers it home: these trains are on borrowed time.
2023 August 23, Pip Dunn, “The last bastion of the HST 'Castles'”, in RAIL, number 990, page 49:In other situations, you might know someone who adds colour with personal anecdotes and feelings. You could shoot off a similar response – perhaps including a short story of your own to hammer home your point.
2020 December 21, Bryan Lufkin, “How 'linguistic mirroring' can make you more convincing”, in BBC:What would Fred Flintstone say if we insisted on spelling his name Phred Phlintstone! Just to hammer the point home, IUPAC only accepts alternative spellings for two elements, and neither of them is sulfur: 'aluminum' and 'cesium' are fair game, although Nature Chemistry uses aluminium and caesium.
2009 August 14, “So long sulphur”, in Nature Chemistry, volume 1, number 5, →DOI, →ISSN, page 333:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| hammering home | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| hammered home | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| hammered home | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| hammers home | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic |
Synonyms
Translations (13)
sh tuviti u glavu (to repeatedly or continually emphasise) · sh utuvljivati (to repeatedly or continually emphasise) · de einbläuen (to repeatedly or continually emphasise) · ru вда́лбливать (to repeatedly or continually emphasise) · it ribadire con forza (to repeatedly or continually emphasise) · hu szájába rág (to repeatedly or continually emphasise) · sv hamra in (to repeatedly or continually emphasise) · it enfatizzare ripetutamente o continuamente (to repeatedly or continually emphasise) · yue 強調 /强调 (to repeatedly or continually emphasise) · hu szájba rág (to repeatedly or continually emphasise) · yue 反覆說明 /反覆说明 (to repeatedly or continually emphasise) · it ripeterci continuamente (to repeatedly or continually emphasise) · ru вдолби́ть (to repeatedly or continually emphasise)