英语词汇“to drive the nail home”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

c. to drive the nail (in) (to the head) (also to drive the nail home): to pursue a matter to its conclusion; to clinch an argument; to make a strong impression on the mind. Similarly to clinch a nail, to beat the nail back, and variants.

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the world > action or operation > completing > complete or conclude action [verb (intransitive)] > push a matter to a conclusion

to clinch a nailc1460

to drive the nail (in) (to the head)c1460

to pin the basketa1659

to drive the nail home1690

the mind > attention and judgement > testing > refutation, disproof > confound, confute [phrase]

bray1535

to beat the nail back1581

to nail (a fact, information, etc.) to the counter1842

to nail a lie (also charge, etc.)1843

to sew up one's stocking1859

to knock galley-west1875

to knock the bottom out of1875

to shoot down in flames1943

c1450 C. d'Orleans Poems (1941) 13 (MED) He seide me, ‘nay, sett there a nayle; Speke me no more therof.’]

c1460 (?c1400) Tale of Beryn 3464 (MED) When Geffrey had a-spied they were in such þouȝt..Hym list to dryv in bet þe nayll til they wer fully cloyid.

1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. cclxxviij^v Let hym haue a respect to him selfe and his chyldren..and dryue not the nayle to the head.

1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (1586) ii. 96 That fellow could not be without a reply to beate backe the nayle againe.

1631 S. Jerome Arraignem. Whole Creature iv. 22 To drive this naile further to the very head: reflexing more fully on the Prodigals huskes.

1690 Def. Dr. Walker 6 But to drive the Nail home, take the Testimonial of Gervase Squire, Esq.

1711 J. Anderson Countrey-man's Let. to Curat 83 Which drives the Nail to the Head.

a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. i. 34 To gain any success, we must proceed with discretion.., driving the nail that will go.

1830 J. Galt Lawrie Todd I. ii. ii. 100 He was..brisk at a bargain, so the nail was soon driven.

1897 F. Barrett Harding Scandal xiv He must drive the nail right home.

1958 Listener 28 Aug. 319/3 Our local radiophonicists..have too often seized upon noise in the higher octaves to drive home dramatic nails.

2000 Boston Globe (Nexis) 20 Feb. (Books section) l1 The manner in which a courtship is foisted upon him..suggests the societal misogyny that must have made it a bit more tempting for Kikutani to drive those nails home.

单词	to drive the nail home
释义	> as lemmas to drive the nail home c. to drive the nail (in) (to the head) (also to drive the nail home): to pursue a matter to its conclusion; to clinch an argument; to make a strong impression on the mind. Similarly to clinch a nail, to beat the nail back, and variants. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > completing > complete or conclude action [verb (intransitive)] > push a matter to a conclusion to clinch a nailc1460 to drive the nail (in) (to the head)c1460 to pin the basketa1659 to drive the nail home1690 the mind > attention and judgement > testing > refutation, disproof > confound, confute [phrase] bray1535 to beat the nail back1581 to nail (a fact, information, etc.) to the counter1842 to nail a lie (also charge, etc.)1843 to sew up one's stocking1859 to knock galley-west1875 to knock the bottom out of1875 to shoot down in flames1943 c1450 C. d'Orleans Poems (1941) 13 (MED) He seide me, ‘nay, sett there a nayle; Speke me no more therof.’] c1460 (?c1400) Tale of Beryn 3464 (MED) When Geffrey had a-spied they were in such þouȝt..Hym list to dryv in bet þe nayll til they wer fully cloyid. 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. cclxxviij^v Let hym haue a respect to him selfe and his chyldren..and dryue not the nayle to the head. 1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (1586) ii. 96 That fellow could not be without a reply to beate backe the nayle againe. 1631 S. Jerome Arraignem. Whole Creature iv. 22 To drive this naile further to the very head: reflexing more fully on the Prodigals huskes. 1690 Def. Dr. Walker 6 But to drive the Nail home, take the Testimonial of Gervase Squire, Esq. 1711 J. Anderson Countrey-man's Let. to Curat 83 Which drives the Nail to the Head. a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. i. 34 To gain any success, we must proceed with discretion.., driving the nail that will go. 1830 J. Galt Lawrie Todd I. ii. ii. 100 He was..brisk at a bargain, so the nail was soon driven. 1897 F. Barrett Harding Scandal xiv He must drive the nail right home. 1958 Listener 28 Aug. 319/3 Our local radiophonicists..have too often seized upon noise in the higher octaves to drive home dramatic nails. 2000 Boston Globe (Nexis) 20 Feb. (Books section) l1 The manner in which a courtship is foisted upon him..suggests the societal misogyny that must have made it a bit more tempting for Kikutani to drive those nails home. extracted from nailn. < as lemmas
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