Meaning of on the money | Babel Free

Definitions

In the correct position; on target; precisely accurate; accurately.

idiomatic

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Examples

“Did you have the wrong kind? I've never had the wrong kind. Ever. My worst one was right on the money.”

“Two of the A-4s landed on the money. The third was not so lucky.”

“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.”

“I always felt that Bob Dylan was on the money when he sang: "When you got nothing, you got nothing to lose."”

“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.”

“Tuchel's side were on the money from the first whistle, the only surprise being it took them 33 minutes to break the deadlock.”

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