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To ram home the point

What does it mean?
Thanks in advance for any help.
Regards, Wiktor Sz.
  

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When you "ram a/the point home," you emphasize it or produce proof for it in such as way as to make its logic inescapable. I'm sure you don't particularly care about the reasons WHY this very old expression exists, so I won't bore you to tears with etymological explanations.

  • When you "ram a/the point home," you emphasize it or produce proof for it in such as way as to make its logic inescapable.
  • I'm sure you don't particularly care about the reasons WHY this very old expression exists, so I won't bore you to tears with etymological explanations.
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When you "ram a/the point home," you emphasize it or produce proof for it in such as way as to make its logic inescapable. I'm sure you don't particularly care about the reasons WHY this very old expression exists, so I won't bore you to tears with etymological explanations.
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napisa³:[nq:1]When you "ram a/the point home," you emphasize it or produce proof for it in such as way as to ... care about the reasons WHY this very old expression exists, so I won't bore you to tears with etymological explanations.[/nq]
I wouldn't mind a longer lecture, actually. I am still learning English and

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