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单词 hit the nail on the head
释义

hit /hit/

transitive verb (hittˈing; hit)
  1. To strike
  2. To reach with a blow or missile (also figurative)
  3. To come into forceful contact with
  4. To knock (eg oneself, one's head)
  5. To inflict (a blow)
  6. To drive by a stroke
  7. To move onto (a road), reach (a place)
  8. To go to (a place) to enjoy oneself, as in hit the town (informal)
  9. (of news) to be published in (informal)
  10. To come, by effort or chance, luckily (upon)
  11. To suit (with) (obsolete)
  12. To imitate exactly
  13. To suit, fit or conform to
  14. To hurt, affect painfully (figurative)
  15. To make a request or demand of (N Am inf)
  16. To murder (slang)
intransitive verb
  1. To strike
  2. To make a movement of striking
  3. To come in contact
  4. To arrive suddenly and destructively
  5. (of an internal combustion engine) to ignite the air and fuel mixture in the cylinders
  6. To inject a dose of a hard drug (slang)
noun
  1. An act or occasion of striking
  2. A successful stroke or shot
  3. A lucky chance
  4. A surprising success
  5. An effective remark, eg a sarcasm, witticism
  6. Something that pleases the public or an audience
  7. A stroke that allows the batter to reach at least first base safely (baseball)
  8. At backgammon, a move that throws one of the opponent's men back to the entering point, or a game won after one or two men are removed from the board
  9. A murder by a gang of criminals (slang)
  10. A dose of a hard drug (slang)
  11. An instance of a computer file, esp a website, being contacted
ORIGIN: OE hyttan, appar ON hitta to light on, to find; Swed hitta to find, Dan hitte to hit upon

hittˈer noun

hitˈ-and-missˈ adjective

  1. Hitting or missing, according to circumstances
  2. Random

hitˈ-and-runˈ adjective

  1. (eg of an air-raid) lasting only a very short time
  2. (of a driver) causing injury and driving off without reporting the incident
  3. (of an accident) caused by a hit-and-run driver

noun

Such an event or accident

hit list noun (slang)

  1. A list of people to be killed by gangsters or terrorists
  2. Any list of targeted victims

hitˈman noun (informal)

Someone employed to kill or attack others (also figurative)

hitˈ-or-missˈ adjective

Hit-and-miss

hit parade noun

  1. A list of currently popular songs (old)
  2. A list of the most popular things of any kind (figurative)

hit squad noun (slang)

A group of assassins working together

hittˈy-missˈy adjective

Random, haphazard

a hit or a miss

A case in which either success or complete failure is possible

hard hit

Gravely affected by some trouble, or by love

hit a blot

  1. In backgammon, to capture an exposed man
  2. To find a weak place

hit at

To aim a blow, sarcasm, gibe, etc at

hit back

To retaliate

hit below the belt see under belt

hit it

To find, often by chance, the right answer

hit it off

To agree, be compatible and friendly (sometimes with with)

hit it up (slang)

To inject a drug

hit off

To imitate or describe aptly (someone or something)

hit on or upon

  1. To come upon, discover, devise
  2. To single out
  3. To make sexual advances to, flirt with (informal)

hit out

  1. To strike out, esp with the fist
  2. To attack strongly (absolute or with at)

hit the bottle (slang)

To drink excessively

hit the ceiling or roof

To be seized with or express violent anger

hit the ground running (informal)

To react instantly, functioning at full speed and efficiency immediately

hit the hay or sack (slang)

To go to bed

hit the high spots see under high1

hit the nail on the head see under nail

hit the road (slang)

To leave, go away

hit the sack see hit the hay above.

hit wicket

The act, or an instance, of striking the wicket with the bat or part of the body and dislodging the bails, and thus being out (cricket)

make or score a hit with

  1. To become popular with
  2. To make a good impression on

nail /nāl/

noun
  1. A horny plate at the end of a finger or toe, usu distinguished from a claw in being flattened
  2. A claw
  3. A small usu metal spike with a head, used for fastening wood, etc
  4. A nail-shaped excrescence, esp one at the tip of a bird's bill
  5. A measure of length (5.5cm or 21/4in)
transitive verb
  1. To fix with a nail
  2. To pin down or hold fast (also figurative)
  3. To fasten, pierce (rare or obsolete), or stud (rare) with nails
  4. To expose as a lie (informal)
  5. To cause the downfall of (informal)
  6. To catch or secure (informal)
  7. To have sexual intercourse with (vulgar sl)
ORIGIN: OE nægel; Ger Nagel

nailed adjective

  1. Having nails
  2. Fastened with nails

nailˈer noun (historical)

A maker of nails

nailˈery noun (historical)

A place where nails were made

nailˈing noun

  1. Making nails
  2. Fastening with nails

nailˈless adjective

nail bar noun

An establishment which provides cosmetic treatments for the nails

nailˈ-bed noun

That portion of the true skin on which a fingernail or toenail rests

nailˈ-biter noun

nailˈ-biting noun

Chewing off the ends of one's fingernails

adjective

(of an event or experience) which induces nail-biting (as a sign of anxiety, excitement or tension)

nail bomb noun

An explosive device packed with long nails

nailˈbrush noun

A brush for cleaning the fingernails or toenails

nail enamel noun

Nail varnish

nail file noun

A file for trimming fingernails or toenails

nail gun noun

An electric tool used to put in nails

nailˈ-head noun

  1. The head of a nail
  2. An ornament shaped like one
adjective /nālˈhedˈ/
  1. (also nailˈ-headˈed) having a head suggesting that of a nail
  2. Having nail-head ornaments

nailˈ-head-sparˈ noun

Calcite crystallized in a scalenohedron terminated by a rhombohedron

nailˈ-hole noun

  1. A hole made by or for a nail
  2. A notch for opening a pocket-knife

nail polish noun

Nail varnish

nail punch or nail set noun

A tool for punching the head of a nail below or flush with the surface

nailˈ-rod noun

  1. A strip of iron to be made into nails
  2. Iron in that form
  3. Strong coarse tobacco (Aust)
  4. A stick of liquorice

nail scissors plural noun

Small scissors designed esp for trimming the fingernails and toenails

nail set see nail punch above.

nail varnish noun

Varnish for fingernails or toenails

a nail in one's (or the) coffin

  1. Any event, experience, etc which has the effect of shortening one's life
  2. A contributory factor in the downfall of someone or something

hard as nails

  1. In excellent physical condition
  2. Physically or mentally tough
  3. Callous, unsympathetic, unsentimental

hit the nail on the head

To touch the exact point

nail a lie to the counter

To expose it and put it out of currency, from the old custom of shopkeepers with counterfeit coins

nail down

  1. To fasten (something) down with nails
  2. To force (someone) to make a binding promise or to give his or her consent (informal)
  3. To fix or establish (something) definitely

nailed on (horse-racing sl)

(of a horse) considered to be a near-certainty to win a race

nail one's colours to the mast see under colour

nail up

To close or fasten with or as if with nails

on the nail

On the spot, without delay, as payment
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