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drive at

verb

  1. informal.
    intr, preposition to intend or mean

    what are you driving at?

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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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Norris and his McLaren team made the right calls in a race punctuated by crashes, three safety cars and an aborted start as the Briton put together a statement drive at the start of a season he intends to end as world champion.

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First to fall was overnight leader Min Woo Lee, whose errant drive at the fifth ended in a double bogey and he never recovered, shooting a six-over 78.

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Officers were called to the family flat in Leabank, off Wauluds Bank Drive, at about 05:30 BST on 13 September after a concerned neighbour said they heard a disturbance.

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Officers were called to the flat in Leabank, off Wauluds Bank Drive, at about 05:30 BST.

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If you have image files on a device like your computer or phone, Hagan suggests you make sure those photos are backed up on a cloud storage or external hard drive at least once a month.

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