| 单词 | right on the money |
| 释义 | > as lemmasright on the money (c) colloquial (chiefly North American). on the money: accurately, precisely; in just the right place, time, or manner. Usually with intensifying adverb, as right on the money, dead on the money. ΚΠ a1944 B. Stiles Serenade to Big Bird (1947) v. 36 I checked the oil pressure and tuned the RPM on the money. 1962 New Yorker 10 Nov. 145 You've got to be right on the money when you set it [sc. an aeroplane] down. 1972 Sat. Rev. (U.S.) 4 Nov. 28 Peter Klappert's article ‘Let Them Eat Wonderbread’ on a political double talk from a poet's vantage point was right on the money. 1991 Spy (N.Y.) Mar. 20/2 Paul Rudnick's ‘Presumed Innocence’..was yet another dead-on-the-money SPY article. 1994 Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch 23 Dec. a1/5 Computer forecast models..have been consistently right on the money for this slow-moving storm. < as lemmas |
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