hit the white

To be correct; to be right on target. (The bull's-eye on a target was once white.) You sure hit the white with that answer—it was exactly what the panel was looking for. Elizabeth hit the white when she suggested that we try expanding our core demographic. We've been way too narrow in our marketing recently. A: "Whoa, you hit the white when you predicted that character wasn't really dead." B: "Eh, is anyone ever really dead on a soap opera?"