“Right on cue”in other languages
At exactly the right moment.
English
Dutch
Italian
Same idea, different pictures
English comes from the theater, where a cue tells the actor when to come on; it can also arrive in the nick of time, just before it's too late. Italian falls like a bean, cadere a fagiolo.
Dutch falls with its nose in the butter, met de neus in de boter vallen: arriving at the luckiest possible moment.
More sayings in other languages
- Pick a fight
- Pick holes in something
- Buy a pig in a poke
- Play to the gallery
- Play with fire
- Prick up one's ears
- Drag one's feet
- Pull out all the stops
- Pull someone's leg