What I'm driving at

Grammar usage guide and real-world examples

What I'm driving at here is the notion of minimum efficient scale.

What I'm driving at here is that I have no other life.

What I'm driving at is that the old chestnut of feminine inequality - what jobs should a woman not be allowed to perform - keeps on raising its head.

You see what I'm driving at?" "Not exactly".

I'm sure you can see what I'm driving at".

(Actually, that is the basic message of Gone with the Wind. But you can see what I'm driving at here).

Nevertheless, Rufer knew what I was driving at.

I told him of the lepers whose fingers and toes abrade away to nothing because of the loss of feeling in the extremities, but he didn't seem to understand what I was driving at.

What I was driving at was that it was a foolish time to have a strike issue over a business and a marketplace that is not evolved enough to even know if there is a business or a marketplace there.

I called Scott Walker's budget shenanigans in Wisconsin the "real Republican Waterloo" and this is exactly what I was driving at – what will the ripple effects of this overreach be?

What I am driving at here is that even though a technology entrepreneur or a developer with just a plain good idea might not come from, say, London, they should still be given a fair hearing.