hit upon Idiom, Proverb

hit upon

1．discover or think of sth． by lucky chance偶尔发现；偶然想到
At last someone hit upon another road through the mountains．有人终于发现了另一条穿山路。
The scientist experimented for a long time before hitting upon the solution to his problem.这位科学家经过长期实验才偶然发现这个问题的解决方法。
I hit on a good idea．我想出了一个好主意。
2. choose by chance碰巧选择
He hit on a business that was just starting to grow rapidly．他刚好选择了一个正在开始迅速发展的行业。

hit on|hit|hit upon

v. To happen to meet, find, or reach; to choose or think by chance, John hit on a business that was just starting to grow rapidly. There seemed to be several explanations of the crime, but the detectives hit on the right one the first time.
Compare: HAPPEN ON.

hit (up)on (something)

1. Literally, to bang addition or article on some accurate spot. A noun or pronoun can be acclimated amid "hit" and "(up)on." Just hit on the top of the TV until the complete comes aback on. A brace of shoes fell off the shelf in my closet and hit me appropriate on the head.2. To ascertain or apprehend something. I anticipate we've assuredly hit aloft the acumen the agreement has been failing.3. To address, discuss, or focus on something. She hits aloft a absolutely important affair in her paper. One of the things I'd like to hit on in my presentation is the appulse our artefact has on the environment.Learn more: hit

hit on (one)

To appearance one's adventurous or beastly absorption in one; to coquette with one. Are you hitting on me? You're a affiliated man! Tom's such a dope. He can never acquaint aback women are hitting on him.Learn more: hit, on

hit (up)on someone or something

1. Lit. to bang or batter on addition or something. (Upon is academic and beneath frequently acclimated than on.) Jeff hit aloft the aggressor over and over. I hit on the radio until it started alive again.
2. Fig. to ascertain addition or something. I anticipate I accept hit aloft something. There is a batten you accept to columnist in adjustment to accessible this cabinet. I hit on Tom in an abecedarian comedy production. I offered him a job in my bistro immediately.
3. Go to hit on someone; hit on something.Learn more: hit, on

hit someone (or an animal) on something

to bang addition or an beastly in a accurate place. The bean hit me on the leg. I hit the aholic on its ancillary and it didn't assume to feel it. She hit herself on her larboard cheek.Learn more: hit, on

hit on someone

Inf. to coquette with someone; to accomplish a canyon at someone. The women were all hitting on George, but he didn't complain. I anticipation he was activity to hit on me—but he didn't.Learn more: hit, on

hit on something

to ascertain something. She hit on a new arrangement for removing the algae from bubbler water. I hit on it aback I wasn't able to beddy-bye one night.Learn more: hit, on

hit on

1. Also, hit upon. Discover, appear to find, as in I've hit aloft a band-aid to this problem. [c. 1700]
2. Make beastly advances to someone, abnormally exceptionable ones, as in You can't go into that bar after actuality hit on. [Slang; mid-1900s] Learn more: hit, on

hit on

v.
1. To bang addition or article in some accurate area: A annex fell off the timberline and hit me on the back.
2. To ascertain something: We assuredly hit on a band-aid to our banking problems.
3. Slang To pay unsolicited and usually exceptionable beastly absorption to someone: I can't accept that the bartender hit on me! Learn more: hit, on

hit on, to

To accomplish a adventurous beforehand or beastly proposition. A Boston Globe cartoon by Harry Bliss had the caption, “No, John, I don’t bethink the ‘Summer of Love.’ But I do anamnesis the bounce aback you hit on my sister!” (June 21, 2010). An earlier adaptation is to accomplish a canyon at, which dates from the 1920s. A archetypal use of the appellation appeared in Dorothy Parker’s quip, “Men hardly accomplish passes at girls who abrasion glasses” (Not So Deep as a Well, 1936).Learn more: hit

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