dead-on
Use Dead-on in a sentence
adjective Informal.
exactly right, accurate, or pertinent: The film director has a dead-on feel for characterization.
Origin:
1885–90
1885–90
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| accurate and to the point; "a dead-on feel for characterization"; "She avoids big scenes...preferring to rely on small gestures and dead-on dialogue"- Peter S.Prescott |
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Dead-on
is always a great word to know.
So is lollapalooza. Does it mean:
| an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance. |
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
Example sentences
Your bait and switch columns are dead-on consistent with my experiences.
But its scans and copies were the best of the bunch, with nearly dead-on color accuracy in scanned images.
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