ram (something) home

idiom

: to make (something) very clear and obvious in a forceful way
He tried to ram home the importance of meeting the deadline.
She hoped that the pictures and examples would ram her point home.

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As per usual, Senez encouraged the cast to improvise their dialogue as much as possible in a further effort to ram home the reality of this painful legislation, and not just the French conversations either. David Opie, IndieWire, 10 Sep. 2024 Biden also increasingly stumbled over his words and often struggled to deliver clear, clean sound bites to ram home his points in video clips shared online and in news broadcasts. Brian Bennett, TIME, 24 July 2024

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“Ram (something) home.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ram%20%28something%29%20home. Accessed 19 Mar. 2025.

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