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drive (something) into the ground
1. To manage or maintain something very poorly, resulting in its destruction, failure, or loss of functionality. If you would just remember to get your oil changed, you wouldn't keep driving your cars into the ground. This is the fourth time he's walked away from a company he helped drive into the ground.
2. To continue to discuss or address some issue or topic that is no longer of any use or relevance; to belabor something. We've all moved on from that problem, so there's no use driving it into the ground. It was enough for him to chide me for the mistake once, but he drove it into the ground again and again over the next few weeks.
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drive
/run into the ground To belabor (an issue or a subject).
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- bad money drives out good
- can drive a truck through something
- chase from some place
- could drive a truck through (something)
- don't drive faster than your guardian angel can fly
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- drive (one) up a pole
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- drive a coach and horses through (something)
- drive a coach and horses through something
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- drive a price down
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- drive a wedge between (someone or something)
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- drive a wedge between someone and someone
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- drive a/the/(something's) price up
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- drive the big bus
- drive the final nail in (someone's or something's) coffin
- drive the point home
- drive the porcelain bus
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- drive to despair
- drive to distraction
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- drive to drink
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- drive up
- drive up the wall
- drive up to (some place or thing)
- drive/hammer something home
- drive/run/work yourself into the ground
- drive/send somebody up the wall
- drive-by media
- drive-by shooting
- drive-in
- for a drive
- for a spin
- force out of office
- force to the wall
- game viewing drive
- go for a drive
- go out for a drive
- in the middle of nowhere
- let drive
- line drive
- nail in one's coffin, drive/put a
- Needs must when the devil drives
- one nail drives out another
- put a nail in (someone's or something's) coffin
- put another nail in (someone's or something's) coffin
- put the final nail in (someone's or something's) coffin
- run (oneself or something) into the ground
- send (one) up the wall
- take (something) for a drive
- work (oneself) into the ground