hit the bull's-eye

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hit the bull's-eye

1. Lit. to hit the very center of a circular target. The archer hit the bull's-eye three times in a row. I didn't hit the bull's-eye even once.

2. Fig. to achieve the goal perfectly. Your idea really hit the bull's-eye. Thank you! Jill has a lot of insight. She knows how to hit the bull's-eye.

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She has disappointed her regular backers on a number of occasions, but when she hit the bull's-eye at Nottingham on her penultimate start a couple of things became clear. Polly's Mark is one to follow in hat-trick bid by The Racing Post (London, England) Brown's contempt was evident at last Wednesday's Prime Minister's Questions when he hit the bull's-eye with a venomous "out of his depth" arrow. Brown in need of a Major overhaul by The Mirror (London, England) But it's not just in the design department that Renault have hit the bull's-eye. GOING ON A MEGA STYLE OFFENSIVE; Renault's designers have pulled out ... by Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)			hit against hit and miss hit at hit back hit below the belt hit between the eyes hit bottom hit hard hit home hit in hit it off hit like a ton of bricks hit off hit on hit one where one lives hit or miss hit out hit pay dirt hit rock bottom hit stride hit the books hit the bottle hit the brakes hit the bricks hit the buffers hit the bull's-eye hit the ceiling hit the deck hit the dirt hit the fan hit the ground running hit the hay hit the headlines hit the high spots hit the jackpot hit the mark hit the nail on the head hit the panic button hit the right note hit the road hit the roof hit the sack hit the side of a barn hit the skids hit the spot hit the trail hit town hit up hit where it hurts hit with hitch			Hit Probability Hit rate Hit rate hit ratio hit rock bottom Hit Size Effectiveness Function hit someone like a ton of bricks Hit someone with a golf ball, liability? hit squad hit squads hit stride HIT syndrome Hit the bid hit the books hit the books hit the books hit the books hit the books hit the books hit the booze hit the bottle hit the brakes hit the bricks hit the bricks hit the bricks hit the bricks hit the bricks hit the bricks hit the bricks hit the buffers hit the bull's-eye hit the ceiling hit the ceiling Hit the Cell hit the deck hit the deck hit the deck hit the deck hit the deck hit the deck hit the dirt hit the dirt hit the fan hit the fan hit the fan hit the fan hit the fan hit the fan Hit the Floor Hit the Ground hit the ground running hit the ground running hit the ground running hit the ground running hit the ground running hit the ground running hit the ground running hit the hay hit the hay hit the headlines hit the high spots

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