to hammer home
Meaning(s)
1. make something extremely clear or obvious
Popularity
High
Professional
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Social
How to Memorize
hammer home the point/concept/message
Analysis
The idiom to hammer something home means to make a point very clearly or directly by repeating or emphasising it so that it is understood.
Social Examples (Advance)
- I understood you the first time. There's no need to keep hammering home the point!
- The gruesome, shocking advertisement was designed to hammer home the message that drink driving costs lives.
Professional Examples (Advance)
- A lot of the new recruits are naturally individualistic, so the company hammers home the concept of teamwork when they are on-boarded.
- We really hammer home the importance of peoples' time and use a number of systems to cut down on unnecessary communication.