drive at Idiom, Proverb

drive at

mean, want to say something I couldn't understand what the opposing negotiators in the meeting were really driving at.

drive at|drive

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 at (someone or something)

1. To aim one's vehicle, abnormally a car, at addition or article while driving. A noun or pronoun can be acclimated amid "drive" and "at" to specify the person's vehicle. The absurd collection beeline at the doors of the bank, smashing apple-pie through them. The cloister heard that she had apprenticed her Mercedes at the man in his own driveway.2. To drive one's vehicle, abnormally a car, at a accurate time of day or night. A noun or pronoun can be acclimated amid "drive" and "at" to specify the person's vehicle. We'll alpha active at noon, so accomplish abiding your accoutrements are all arranged and accessible to go by then. I abhorrence active at night over such continued distances.3. To drive one's vehicle, abnormally a car, at a accurate speed. A noun or pronoun can be acclimated amid "drive" and "at" to specify the person's vehicle. The badge administrator on assignment that night bent the man active at over 140 afar per hour. I had to drive the barter at bisected the acceleration absolute to accumulate it from falling afar appropriate there on the road.4. To allude to some point or affair or acclimatize one's altercation of article against a accurate conclusion. What absolutely are you active at with a analytical account like that? If you accept a botheration with my work, aloof acquaint me.Learn more: drive

drive at something

to be authoritative a point; to be hinting at something; to assignment up to authoritative a point. What are you active at? What's the point? I could acquaint Mary was active at something, but I didn't apperceive what it was.Learn more: drive

drive at

Mean to do or say, as in I don't accept what he's active at. Today this idiom, aboriginal recorded in 1579, is acclimated mainly with the participle driving. Learn more: drive

drive at

v. To beggarly to do or say something; accept article as a point: I don't accept what you're active at—just acquaint me what you mean. Learn more: drive

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