you drive me home.
English translation: you compel or urge me to address the important point
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| 4 +3 | you compel or urge me to address the important point |
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peer agreement (net): +3
peer agreement (net): +3you compel or urge me to address the important point Explanation: Clearly this doesn't mean what it would mean today: take him to his home by car! "Drive" means urge or compel, and "home" means at or close to the vital point, with the sense of reaching a goal or the culmination of something. Here are relevant definitions from Webster: "Drive To compel or urge forward by other means than absolute physical force, or by means that compel the will" http://1828.mshaffer.com/d/word/drive "Home Close; closely; to the point; as, this consideration comes home to our interest, that is, it nearly affects it. Drive the nail home, that is, drive it close." http://1828.mshaffer.com/d/search/word,home This survives in the expression "hit home", meaning to hit the mark. To drive a nail home could still mean to hit is fully into position, all the way in. So the speaker means that the question forces or prompts him to address the vital point, which is that he is not content. It is a bit like saying that he hit the nail on the head. |
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