hammered into

We’re looking together at two wooden planks with metal tags hammered into them.

But it's also important because if a Labour victory is hammered into people's expectations, that could affect how the election campaign is fought.

The atmosphere in the O2 was as dead as a doornail hammered into a Dodo and buried in a concrete bunker.

Mr. Austin’s backers said that with his prostate cancer, he was following a military ethos that has been hammered into him his entire work life: Don’t complain.

Goller and other residents were incensed when they saw the companies’ legal teams, seeking to notify all landowners, had delivered copies of the lawsuit in envelopes attached to dozens of wooden stakes, which they hammered into the ground along roads.