单词 | to hit the mark |
释义 | > as lemmasto hit the mark (also nail, needle, pin) a. to hit the mark (also nail, needle, pin); to hit the nail upon (or on) the head, usually figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > advantage > efficacy > be efficacious [verb (intransitive)] workOE availa1400 makea1400 prevaila1400 to hit the nail upon (or on) the headc1450 effect1592 serve1593 to tickle it1601 take1611 executea1627 to have force (to do)1713 answer1721 to take place1789 to do the trick1819 to hit (also go to, touch, etc.) the spot1836 produce1881 to press (also push) the button1890 to come through1906 to turn the trick1933 to make a (also the) point1991 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > freedom from error, correctness > exactness, accuracy, precision > be exact [phrase] to hit the nail upon (or on) the headc1450 to the notch1790 the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > succeed or be a success [verb (intransitive)] > achieve success (of persons) speed993 achievec1300 escheve?a1400 succeed1509 to turn up trumps1595 fadge1611 to nick ita1637 to hit the mark (also nail, needle, pin)1655 to get on1768 to reap, win one's laurels1819 to go a long way1859 win out1861 score1882 to make it1885 to make a ten-strike1887 to make the grade1912 to make good1914 to bring home the bacon1924 to go places1931 c1450 Cov. Myst. (Shaks. Soc.) 138 Now be myn trowthe ȝe hytte the pynne. ?1529 Proper Dyaloge Gentillman & Husbandman sig. A viij Thou hyttest the nayle vpon the heed For that is the thinge that they dreed. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) iii. xxii. sig. Vu4v Indeed she had hit the needle in that deuise. 1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke 75 That we commonly call hitting the eight on the face, when we come to an eight, and skip vp from it agayne to another perfect concord. 1614 T. Overbury et al. Characters in Wife now Widdow sig. E His eyes are all white,..to keep Cupid from hitting the blacke. 1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. ii. 99 Venerable was found out as an Expedient to accommodate the Difference, luckily hitting the Mark, as a Title neither too high, nor too low. 1680 H. More Apocalypsis Apocalypseos 54 This Bow-man hat the mark, when the Emperour Constantine turned Christian. a1865 E. C. Gaskell Wives & Daughters (1866) I. iv. 43 He was rash..hitting the nail on the head sometimes. < as lemmas |
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