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“Right on cue”in other languages

At exactly the right moment.

  • English
  • Dutch
  • Italian
Behind the words

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.

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