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.

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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. The Prince by Machiavelli, Nicolo View in context It might have been so--guesses less likely have been made at the truth, and have hit the mark. Man And Wife by Collins, Wilkie View in context But D'Artagnan was impassible and Porthos motionless; the thrusts aimed so skillfully were parried by an able adversary; not one hit the mark. Ten Years Later by Dumas, Alexandre View in context			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 hitch wagon to Hitch your wagon to a star hither hither, thither, and yon hits the fan hive of activity ho-hum hoard up hoarse as a crow hobnob with			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 Hit the Highway hit the jackpot hit the jackpot hit the jackpot hit the jackpot hit the jackpot hit the jackpot hit the mark hit the nail on the head hit the nail on the head hit the nail on the head hit the nail on the head hit the nail on the head hit the nail on the head hit the panic button hit the panic button hit the panic button hit the pavement Hit the ribbon hit the right note hit the right note hit the right note hit the right note hit the right note hit the right note hit the road hit the road hit the road hit the road hit the road hit the road Hit the Road Jack hit the roof hit the roof Hit the Roof Recordings hit the sack hit the sack hit the scene

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