on the nose

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on the nose (mainly American)

exactly right, often an exact amount of money or time We arrived at three o'clock on the nose. Her description of the play really hit it on the nose.

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I don't know why a touch on the nose should affect my imagination so much. The Wisdom Of Father Brown by Chesterton, Gilbert K. View in context Just hit him on the nose every time he rushed, and when he got artful and rushed with his head down, why, the thing to do was to stick out your leg. Moon-Face and Other Stories by London, Jack View in context And then came a second thwack, aimed at the driver's other ear; but which missed it, and hit him on the nose, causing a terrible effusion of blood. Mosses From An Old Manse and other stories by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context More results

? References in classic literature

I don't know why a touch on the nose should affect my imagination so much.

The Wisdom Of Father Brown by Chesterton, Gilbert K. View in context

Just hit him on the nose every time he rushed, and when he got artful and rushed with his head down, why, the thing to do was to stick out your leg.

Moon-Face and Other Stories by London, Jack View in context

And then came a second thwack, aimed at the driver's other ear; but which missed it, and hit him on the nose, causing a terrible effusion of blood.

Mosses From An Old Manse and other stories by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context

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