he nailed it
he did it completely right
TRANSLATION
to nail something (fig.) = richtig treffen, richtig machen --- GOOGLE INDEX nailed it: approximately 7,500,000 Google hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
H.L. Mencken, himself a columnist of renown, NAILED IT when he admitted that of the five million published words he claimed to have written in his lifetime, most were nothing more than "journalism pure and simple—dead almost before the ink which printed it was dry."
(Wall Street Journal)
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You could say he NAILED IT.
A New Jersey man is lucky to be alive after accidentally shooting himself in the heart with a nail gun, the New York Daily News reported.
(Fox News)
(Wall Street Journal)
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You could say he NAILED IT.
A New Jersey man is lucky to be alive after accidentally shooting himself in the heart with a nail gun, the New York Daily News reported.
(Fox News)
Did you
know?
nail something
idiom
- to do something perfectly or successfully
(idiommeanings.com)
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Anyone who has tried to drive a nail into a wall in order to hang a picture knows that this task is more difficult than it looks. Even the most experienced woodworker will be slightly off target on occasion, resulting in an unwanted hole in the wall, a bruised thumb or both. That's why the verb "nail" has taken on the additional meaning of being accurate. Apart from the expression "nail it," the word nail appears in several other phrases. Below are a few examples:
hit the nail on the head = to do exactly the right thing; to do something in the most effective and efficient way (His speech really hit the nail on the head)
nail something down = to make something certain or final (We have to nail our strategy down before the Friday management meeting)
hard/tough as nails = strong and determined (Don't be fooled by her friendly disposition; she is also hard as nails)
nail in the coffin = an action that will cause something to end (If we lose our biggest customer, that will be a nail in the company's coffin)
(to be) a bed of nails = a difficult or unpleasant situation (My job has been a bed of nails ever since we started cutting costs)
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SYNONYMS
to be spot on, to be right, to get it right, on target, on the money, on the nose, right on
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"The investors were sceptical, but his brilliant presentation nailed it."
idiom
- to do something perfectly or successfully
(idiommeanings.com)
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Anyone who has tried to drive a nail into a wall in order to hang a picture knows that this task is more difficult than it looks. Even the most experienced woodworker will be slightly off target on occasion, resulting in an unwanted hole in the wall, a bruised thumb or both. That's why the verb "nail" has taken on the additional meaning of being accurate. Apart from the expression "nail it," the word nail appears in several other phrases. Below are a few examples:
hit the nail on the head = to do exactly the right thing; to do something in the most effective and efficient way (His speech really hit the nail on the head)
nail something down = to make something certain or final (We have to nail our strategy down before the Friday management meeting)
hard/tough as nails = strong and determined (Don't be fooled by her friendly disposition; she is also hard as nails)
nail in the coffin = an action that will cause something to end (If we lose our biggest customer, that will be a nail in the company's coffin)
(to be) a bed of nails = a difficult or unpleasant situation (My job has been a bed of nails ever since we started cutting costs)
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SYNONYMS
to be spot on, to be right, to get it right, on target, on the money, on the nose, right on
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"The investors were sceptical, but his brilliant presentation nailed it."
