on the money

English

Alternative forms

• right on the money

Etymology

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Pronunciation

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Prepositional phrase

on the money

1. (idiomatic) In the correct position; on target; precisely accurate; accurately.

   Synonyms: exactly, on the dot, on the mark; see also Thesaurus:exactly

   • 1979, Woody Allen, Manhattan, spoken by Isaac Davis (Woody Allen):

     Did you have the wrong kind? I've never had the wrong kind. Ever. My worst one was right on the money.

   • 1987 July, Maj. Michael B. Perini, “In Good Hands with Gold 11”, in Air Force Magazine‎^[1], volume 70, number 7, retrieved 10 May 2014:

     Two of the A-4s landed on the money. The third was not so lucky.

   • 2008 October 10, Richard Friebe, “How Nobel Winners Spend Their Prize Money: Al Gore”, in Time‎^[2], archived from the original on 2014-03-06:

     For years, Gore had been dismissed, even ridiculed, for his traveling Power Point extravaganza warning about climate change. […] Today, few would disagree that Al was pretty much on the money.

   • 2011 August 19, The Secret Footballer, “For new boys there's nothing like the big time”, in The Guardian (UK)‎^[3], retrieved retrieved 10 May 2014:

     I always felt that Bob Dylan was on the money when he sang: "When you got nothing, you got nothing to lose."

   • 2013 February 1, Robert Peele, “The Mouse That Roars”, in New York Times‎^[4], retrieved 10 May 2014:

     Its mileage claims were right on the money: I averaged a little over 33 m.p.g. over a weekend of combined city-highway driving in the 2012 SL.

References

• “on the money”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.