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square on

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Adverb

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square on (not comparable)

  1. (idiomatic) accurately, correctly.
    • 2021, Critics Consensus, Don't Look Up[1]:
      Don't Look Up aims too high for its scattershot barbs to consistently land, but Adam McKay's star-studded satire hits its target of collective denial square on.
    • 2013 November 18, Loren D. Estleman, The Detroit Novels Volume One: Edsel, Stress, and Motown, Open Road Media, →ISBN:
      I was square on time for my appointment at the Lafayette Coney Island and I wanted to be late.