dead on

Speech parts

1. dead on - Adjective

2. dead on - Adverb

3. dead on - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

accurate and to the point

Alternative names

dead-on

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Examples

Someone can break your heart, leave you dead on the lawn, and still you never learn what to say to stop it all over again. Daniel Handler

I went to jail 44 times. I've been beaten and left for dead on the side of the road fighting for freedom... Yet Rosa Parks is better known in history than Ralph David Abernathy. Why is that? Ralph Abernathy

As for bravery: dead on the fields are millions who would have feared to wear a hat in inappropriate season, so I judged that brave warriors are dirt cheap as compared with untimid civilians. Kenneth Burke

What they forget is that, from Ancient Greece on, the people who returned from battle were either dead on their shields or stronger, despite and because of their scars. Paulo Coelho

And the rest, all the rest. All the days and lights and winds and years that would have been, and that would not be, that should be and were not, because he was dead. Shot dead on the road, in the wind, at twenty-one. His mountains unclimbed, never to be climbed. Ursula K. Le Guin

You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn't really have. A photograph, even if it's connecting with you, it seems very dead on the page sometimes. Daniel Clowes

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