D
Idioms beginning with "D"
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[drive at] {v.}
To try or want to say; mean. — Used in the present participle.
John did not understand what the coach was driving at.
He had been talking for half an hour before anyone realized what he was driving at.
[drive home] {v. phr.}
To argue convincingly; make a strong point.
The doctor's convincing arguments and explanation of his X-ray pictures drove home the point to Max that he needed surgery.
[drive like Jehu] {v. phr.}, {informal}
To drive very fast, carelessly or recklessly.
When Joe is late for work, he drives like Jehu.
[drive one ape], [drive one bananas], [drive one crazy], [drive one mad] or [drive one nuts] {v. phr.}, {informal}
To irritate, frustrate, or tickle someone's fancy so badly that they think they are going insane.
* /"Stop teasing me, Mary," John said. […]
[drive one round the bend] {v. phr.}, {informal}
To upset someone so much that they think they are going crazy.
"Slow down, please," Miss Jones cried. "You are driving me around the bend!"
Contrast: [DRIVE ONE APE], [BANANAS].
[drive someone bananas] or [drive someone nuts] or [drive someone ape] {v. phr.}, {slang} {informal}
To excite someone to the point that he or she goes out of his or her mind; to drive someone crazy.
* /You're driving me bananas, nuts with that kind of […]
[drive to the wall] {v. phr.}
To defeat someone completely; to ruin someone.
Poor Uncle Jack was driven to the wall by his angry creditors when his business failed.
Compare: [GO TO THE WALL].
[drive-in] {adj.}/ {n.}
A kind of movie theater, fast food restaurant, or church, where the customers, spectators, or worshippers do not leave their automobiles but are served the food inside their cars, can watch a motion picture from inside their cars, […]