hit the spot

Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.

• US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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Likely originally reflecting either the same metaphor as scratch the itch or a shooting-at-a-target metaphor, although not always perceived through those lenses anymore.

14 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Chinese Mandarin: 恰到好处 (qiàdàohǎochù) — be particularly pleasing or appropriate
• Finnish: tehdä terää — be particularly pleasing or appropriate
• Finnish: olla poikaa — be particularly pleasing or appropriate
• Finnish: tehdä poikaa — be particularly pleasing or appropriate
• Finnish: tehdä eetvarttia — be particularly pleasing or appropriate
• Finnish: tulla hyvään saumaan — be particularly pleasing or appropriate
• Finnish: sopia kuin valettu — be particularly pleasing or appropriate
• French: mettre dans le mille — be particularly pleasing or appropriate
• French: faire mouche — be particularly pleasing or appropriate
• French: passer crème — be particularly pleasing or appropriate
• Icelandic: vera hreinasta fyrirtak — be particularly pleasing or appropriate
• Icelandic: vera beint í æð — be particularly pleasing or appropriate
• Polish: trafić w dziesiątkę — be particularly pleasing or appropriate
• Welsh: taro'r nod — be particularly pleasing or appropriate