“Hit the nail on the head”in other languages
Get something exactly right.
English
German
Portuguese
EnglishGermanPortugueseSame idea, different pictures
English and German share the carpenter's clean blow: den Nagel auf den Kopf treffen. Hit it dead center and the nail goes straight in.
Brazilian Portuguese hits the fly, acertar na mosca, the black center of a target, small as a fly.
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- Hold one's tongue
- Holy cow!
- The morning after the night before
- I could eat a horse
- Be afraid of one's own shadow
- Get up on the wrong side of the bed
- In full swing
- In one's element
- In the middle of nowhere