hit the nail on the head
to describe exactly what is causing a situation or problem:
I think Mick hit the nail on the head when he said that what's lacking in this company is a feeling of confidence.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Accurate and exact
- accuracy
- accurate
- aright
- authoritative
- bang
- be bang on idiom
- exact
- exactly
- flat
- in so many words idiom
- infallible
- infallibly
- letter-perfect
- literal
- strictly speaking idiom
- technically
- to the day idiom
- to the letter idiom
- truly
- unerring
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