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hit the mark |
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hit the something mark to reach a certain point or level. Did the temperature really hit the -32 degrees centigrade mark last winter? His debts have hit the $3 million mark. hit the mark to be correct, suitable, or successful. If you're looking for a word to describe Dave, 'urbane' would probably hit the mark. She had a good voice, but her songs never quite hit the mark. hit the mark to be correct or accurate. The writer hit the mark in saying that the military contributes $400,000 a month to the local economy. |
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Let him act like the clever archers who, designing to hit the mark which yet appears too far distant, and knowing the limits to which the strength of their bow attains, take aim much higher than the mark, not to reach by their strength or arrow to so great a height, but to be able with the aid of so high an aim to hit the mark they wish to reach. It might have been so--guesses less likely have been made at the truth, and have hit the mark. But D'Artagnan was impassible and Porthos motionless; the thrusts aimed so skillfully were parried by an able adversary; not one hit the mark. |
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