hit on Thành ngữ, tục ngữ
hit on
hit on/upon
hit one where one lives
Idiom(s): hit one where one lives AND hit one close to homeTheme: EMOTION
to affect one personally and intimately. (Informal.)
• Her comments really hit me where I live. Her words seemed to apply directly to me.
• I listened carefully and didn't think she hit close to home at all.
hit one's stride
Idiom(s): reach one's stride AND hit one's strideTheme: ACCOMPLISHMENT
to do something at one's best level of ability.
• When I reach my stride, things will go faster, and I'll be more efficient.
• Now that I've hit my stride, I can work more efficiently.
hit one close to home
Idiom(s): hit one where one lives AND hit one close to homeTheme: EMOTION
to affect one personally and intimately. (Informal.)
• Her comments really hit me where I live. Her words seemed to apply directly to me.
• I listened carefully and didn't think she hit close to home at all.
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 on all cylinders|cylinders|hit|hit on
v. phr. 1. To run smoothly or at full power without any missing or skipping.
Said of a motor. The mechanic tuned the car engine until it was hitting on all cylinders. 2. informal To think or work well; to use all your ability. The football team was hitting on all cylinders and scored a big victory. Bob began to write his examination, and found himself hitting on all cylinders.hit one's stride|hit|stride
v. phr. 1. To walk or run at your best speed; reach your top speed or game. After walking the first mile, Jim was just hitting his stride. The horse began to hit his stride and moved ahead of the other horses in the race. 2. To do your best work; do the best job you are able to. Mary didn't begin to hit her stride in school until the fifth grade.hit on all cylinders
hit on all cylinderssee fire on all cylinders.
shit on
shit onTreat with malice or disrespect, as in I'm tired of all these administrators shitting on me every time I want to try something new. This usage is vulgar slang.
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: hithit 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, onhit (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, onhit 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, onhit 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, onhit 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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