| 词汇 | drives at |
| 释义 | (redirected from drives at)drive at (something)To allude to some point or topic or orient one's discussion of something toward a particular conclusion. What exactly are you driving at with a critical statement like that? If you have a problem with my work, just tell me. drive at somethingto be making a point; to be hinting at something; to work up to making a point. What are you driving at? What's the point? I could tell Mary was driving at something, but I didn't know what it was. drive atMean to do or say, as in I don't understand what he's driving at. Today this idiom, first recorded in 1579, is used mainly with the participle driving. drive atv. To mean to do or say something; have something as a point: I don't understand what you're driving at—just tell me what you mean. |
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