be bang on
Definition
› to be exactly right: What was your answer? 76? That's absolutely bang on!Accurate and exact
(Definition of be bang on from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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- Balance and imbalance
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- Making mistakes
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- Perfect and faultless
- Proving and disproving
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be banging, etc. your head against a brick wall idiom
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Synonyms and related words:
- accuracy noun
- accurate adjective
- aright adverb
- authoritative adjective
- bang adverb
- copybook adjective
- exact adjective
- exactly adverb
- flat adverb (COMPLETELY)
- infallibly adverb
- letter-perfect adjective
- literal adjective
- on the nose idiom
- precise adjective (EXACT)
- technically adverb
- to the day idiom
- to the letter idiom
- truly adverb (EXACTLY)
- unerring adjective
- verbatim adverb
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