ram home

English

Verb

ram home (third-person singular simple present rams home, present participle ramming home, simple past and past participle rammed home)

(transitive) To drive home.
- 2021 February 26, Larry Elliott, Heather Stewart, “Sunak to use budget to start repairing UK's public finances”, in The Guardian‎:
  Rishi Sunak will use the volatility in global financial markets to ram home a budget message next week that immediate action is needed to repair the damage to the public finances caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.

References

“ram home” (US) / “ram home” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.
“ram sth home”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
“ram something home”, in Collins English Dictionary.
“ram home”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

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