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View synonyms for

drive at

verb

  1. informal(intr, preposition) to intend or mean

    what are you driving at?

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Idioms and Phrases

Mean 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.
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After a ragged drive at the 17th, he destroyed a tee marker with his club.

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While he didn’t dispute that Quintana was behind the account or that he posted locations of takeovers, he said his client didn’t attend the events or drive at any of them.

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Only Amad Diallo and Alejandro Garnacho - who is likely to leave - possess the quality to run and drive at defenders, with the ability to create a chance using their initiative in a rigid system.

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By making the front wings become less effective at higher speeds, teams can reduce this nervousness in quick corners without making the cars too hard to drive at low speed.

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Combined with what team principal Andrea Stella describes as a "relatively numb" front axle, which is not giving Norris the "cues" he needs to drive at the limit, and Piastri has turned the tables.

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