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hit the nail on the head

hit the nail on the head verb: to identify something exactly; to arrive at exactly the right answer.

Verb

hit the nail on the head (third-person singular simple present hits the nail on the head, present participle hitting the nail on the head, simple past and past participle hit the nail on the head)

  1. (idiomatic) To identify something exactly; to arrive at exactly the right answer.
    • He hit the nail on the head when he said the problem was the thermostat.
    • "Scotte's discovery of Witchcraft dismasketh sundry egregious impostures, and in certaine principall chapters, and speciall passages, hitteth the nayle on the head with a witnesse."1593, Gabriel Harvey, Pierce's Supererogation, or A New Praise Of The Old Ass, page 291

hit the nail on the head meaning in Bengali and Kannada

hit the nail on the head in Bengali

একদম সঠিকভাবে শনাক্ত করা

hit the nail on the head in Kannada

ಸರಿಯಾಗಿ ಊಹಿಸು, ಕರಾರುವಾಕ್ಕಾಗಿ ಹೇಳು, ಗುರಿ ಹೊಡೆದಂತೆ ಹೇಳು, ನಿರೀಕ್ಷಿತ ಫಲವನ್ನು ಪಡೆ, ಸರಿಯಾಗಿ ಮಾತನಾಡು, ಸೂಕ್ತಕಾರ್ಯ ಮಾಡು

Synonyms of hit the nail on the head

Forms of hit the nail on the head

third-person singular presenthits the nail on the head
present participlehitting the nail on the head
past participlehit the nail on the head
pasthit the nail on the head

Questions about hit the nail on the head

What does hit the nail on the head mean?
Hit the nail on the head means to identify something exactly; to arrive at exactly the right answer.
What is hit the nail on the head in Bengali?
Hit the nail on the head in Bengali is একদম সঠিকভাবে শনাক্ত করা. See Hit the nail on the head meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is hit the nail on the head?
Hit the nail on the head is a verb.
What is the past tense of hit the nail on the head?
The past tense of hit the nail on the head is hit the nail on the head.

Words near hit the nail on the head in the dictionary

  1. hit the head
  2. hit the headlines
  3. hit the high notes
  4. hit the jackpot
  5. hit the mark
  6. hit the nail on the head
  7. hit the net
  8. hit the pan
  9. hit the pause button
  10. hit the pavement
  11. hit the rack

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hit the nail on the head (page history and authors); hit the nail on the head (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); hit the nail on the head (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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