"The tradeoffs between hardware and software were drilled into my head at a very early age," he said.

Since 1957 these have been drilled into every training firefighter's head.

The lessons her big sister, Kestra, had tried to drill into her head so many times.

Their voices seem to be drilling into my head, and they're all staring at me avidly, waiting for an answer.

So Margo had said when she'd drilled the request into his head.

You've been drilling your baby blues into my head since the meeting started.

"I took to heart the instructions my father drilled into my head," he recalls.

They are always drilling into your head that you must work as a team, which is an excellent aspect of the training.

For drilling it into his head to be respectful and obedient towards the teachers.

The lesson drilled into my head in internship and residency had been: When you're a doctor, your patients come first.