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Difficulty: EasyIdioms and Idiomatic Expressions

Complete the sentence below by providing the appropriate idiomatic expression in the blank space.

Answer:During the strategy meeting, the analyst managed to 【hit the nail on the head】 when she identified the exact cause of the company's declining sales.

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hit the nail on the head
The idiom 'hit the nail on the head' figuratively means to state or identify something with absolute accuracy. In the given sentence, the analyst accurately pinpointed the exact reason for the decline in sales.

Step-by-Step Solution

1
Analyze the context of the sentence to determine the required meaning.
The sentence describes an action where someone accurately pinpoints the precise cause of a problem during a discussion.
Contextual clues such as 'identified the exact cause' indicate complete accuracy in analysis.
2
Identify the idiomatic expression that corresponds to stating or doing something with exact accuracy.
The idiom 'hit the nail on the head' means to describe or identify a problem or situation with exact accuracy.
This idiomatic expression fits the syntactic and semantic structure of the sentence.

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Idioms and Idiomatic Expressions
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