on the money

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on the money

  1. (idiomatic) In the correct position; on target; precisely accurate; accurately.
    Synonyms: exactly, on the dot, on the mark; see also Thesaurus:exactly
    • 1979, Woody Allen, Manhattan, spoken by Isaac Davis (Woody Allen):
      Did you have the wrong kind? I've never had the wrong kind. Ever. My worst one was right on the money.
    • 1987 July, Maj. Michael B. Perini, “In Good Hands with Gold 11”, in Air Force Magazine[1], volume 70, number 7, retrieved 10 May 2014:
      Two of the A-4s landed on the money. The third was not so lucky.
    • 2008 October 10, Richard Friebe, “How Nobel Winners Spend Their Prize Money: Al Gore”, in Time[2], archived from the original on 2014-03-06:
      For years, Gore had been dismissed, even ridiculed, for his traveling Power Point extravaganza warning about climate change. [] Today, few would disagree that Al was pretty much on the money.
    • 2011 August 19, The Secret Footballer, “For new boys there's nothing like the big time”, in The Guardian (UK)[3], retrieved retrieved 10 May 2014:
      I always felt that Bob Dylan was on the money when he sang: "When you got nothing, you got nothing to lose."
    • 2013 February 1, Robert Peele, “The Mouse That Roars”, in New York Times[4], retrieved 10 May 2014:
      Its mileage claims were right on the money: I averaged a little over 33 m.p.g. over a weekend of combined city-highway driving in the 2012 SL.

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