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  1. dripping wet див. D-830.

  2. Drive a bargain, to див. С-763.

  3. drive a coach and four (або six) through something, to [тж. drive a coach- and-four (або -six) through something] 1) бу­ ти неправдоподібним, впадати в око (про неправдоподібне оповідання); 2) найти ла­ зівку, щоб звести нанівець; викрутитися, анулювати, обійти закон (особл. посилаю­ чись на неточність або неясність у тексті);

You may talk vaguely about driving a coach-and-six through a bad young Act of Parliament (Ch. Dickens).

The Cyprus plan, with Ihe provision for statio­nary Turkish troops in Cyprus and giving the Turkish Government the right of military inter­vention there, drives a coach-and-four through the Lausanne Treaty (D. W. L., March 2, 1959).

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  1. Drive a fool's bargain, to див. С-764.

  2. drive a hard bargain, to багато пра­ вити (за щось); дуже торгуватися.

  3. drive a nail in (або into) one's coffin,

to прискорювати свою або чиюсь загибель, зводити себе або когось у могилу.

  1. drive a pen (або a quill), to бути письменником, володіти пером.

  2. drive a roaring trade, to мати багато покупців.

  3. drive (або get) at (something), to вишукувати; домагатися (чогось);

І honestly could not understand what was he driving at (J. London).

I never knew what he was getting at (D.. Car­ter).

873. drive a wedge (between), to вбити клин;

The fact that the offer was apparently made only to the Regents Park tenants and not to the United Borough Council Tenants' Association, which represents all tenants, indicated that the authorities were trying to drive a wedge between the two centres of the campaign... (D. W L., Sept. 7. i960).

' 874. drive (one) crazy (або demented, fran­tic, mad), to [тж. to drive one out of one's mind (або senses); сл. to drive one off one's rocker] звести, зводити з розуму, довести до безумства (когось);

Не had been suffocating in that atmosphere, while the apprentice's chatter had driven him frantic (J. London).

I couldn't stop in that miserable house after mother died. Julia would have driven me mad! (E. Voynich).

But we were all afraid of his eccentricity; and some among us even feared that the excitement of appearing at the Trial might drive him completely out of his mind (W. Collins).

An off-beat week if ever this was one — almost enough to drive a critic off his rocker, in fact! (D, W. L., May 2, 1960).

875. drive (або ride, run) hell for leather,

to [тж. to drive (або ride, run) like hell for leather] розм. нестися, мчати, летіти дуже швидко, щодуху.

876. drive (something) home (to), to 1) пе­ реконати, втлумачити [тж. to drive (some­ thing) home to one's mind; to ram it home to one];

The first great boom in aeronautics was begin­ning. Grubb and Bert heard of it in a music-hall, then it was driven home to their mind by the cinematograph (ft. Wells).

2) довести щось до кінця, успішно за­вершити.

877. drive (one) into a corner, to [гас. to drive (або force, pin, push, put) (one) to the wall; to get (one) at a dead-lock] загнати в куток, притиснути до стіни, поставити в безвихідне становище (когось); див. тж. Н-1045;

She had felt that she was being driven into a corner (W. Morris).

Jones instantly interposed on behalf of the suffering party, and pinned the insulting conqueror up to the wall: for the puppet-show man was no more able to contend with Jones than the poor party-coloured jester had been to contend with this puppet-man (H. Fielding).

Now here I have got the preacher at a dead­lock (G. Byron).

878. drive (060 put, throw, thrust) (one, something) into the background, to [тж. to put (one, something) in the background; to, relegate (або put) (one, something) to the background] відтиснути, відсунути на зад­ ній план (когось, щось);

Gilbert's affairs had perforce to be thrust into the background (F. Danby).

  1. drive like hell for leather, to див. D-875.

  1. drive (one) mad, to див. D-S74.

  1. drive (або be, fly, go) off (або on) at a tangent, to несподівано, раптово відхи­ литися від попереднього напрямку думок або теми розмови; несподівано, раптово змінити свою поведінку;

Then his thoughts drove off at a tangent (H. Wells}.

He started violently — his mind had been off at a tangent, thinking for the first time in weeks of Magda (D. Cusack).

From Dodson and Fogg's it [= Mr. Pickwick's mind] flew off at a tangent to the very centre of the history of the queer client (Ch. Dickens).

He went off at a tangent to describe the men in his platoon (H. Wells).

  1. drive one off one's rocker, to див. D-S74.

  2. drive one out of one's mind (060 senses), to див. D-874,

  3. drive one's hogs to a bad {або fair, fine, pretty, an unpromising, wrong) market, to див. В-2722.

  4. drive one's hogs (або pigs) to mar­ ket, to заст. жарт, гучно хропіти;

ІЬ'«, he fell asleep and snored so loud we thought he was driving his hogs to market (J. Swift).

886. drive one's pigs to a bad (або fair, fine, pretty, an unpromising, wrong) market, to див. В-2722.

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