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{
"form": "hits the spot",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
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]
},
{
"form": "hitting the spot",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "hit the spot",
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]
},
{
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},
"expansion": "hit the spot (third-person singular simple present hits the spot, present participle hitting the spot, simple past and past participle hit the spot)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
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"pos": "verb",
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{
"text": "Some ice cold lemonade would hit the spot on a warm afternoon.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "2022 July 21, Eric Kim, “Welcome to Chicago, Hot Dog Town, U.S.A.”, in The New York Times",
"text": "Even in the Midwestern summer heat, Al’s dogs hit the spot. Chicago is indisputably a hot-dog town, and there may be no better time than summer to feel that sunshine in your hands.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"To be particularly pleasing or appropriate; to be just right."
],
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],
[
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],
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]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(idiomatic, informal) To be particularly pleasing or appropriate; to be just right."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "hit the button"
}
],
"tags": [
"idiomatic",
"informal"
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "qiàdàohǎochù",
"sense": "be particularly pleasing or appropriate",
"word": "恰到好处"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "be particularly pleasing or appropriate",
"word": "sopia kuin valettu"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "be particularly pleasing or appropriate",
"word": "tulla hyvään saumaan"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "be particularly pleasing or appropriate",
"word": "olla poikaa"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "be particularly pleasing or appropriate",
"word": "tehdä poikaa"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "be particularly pleasing or appropriate",
"word": "tehdä eetvarttia"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "be particularly pleasing or appropriate",
"word": "mettre dans le mille"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "be particularly pleasing or appropriate",
"word": "faire mouche"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "be particularly pleasing or appropriate",
"word": "passer crème"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "be particularly pleasing or appropriate",
"word": "vera hreinasta fyrirtak"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "be particularly pleasing or appropriate",
"word": "vera beint í æð"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "be particularly pleasing or appropriate",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "trafić w dziesiątkę"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "be particularly pleasing or appropriate",
"word": "taro'r nod"
}
]
}
],
"word": "hit the spot"
}
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"text": "Some ice cold lemonade would hit the spot on a warm afternoon.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "2022 July 21, Eric Kim, “Welcome to Chicago, Hot Dog Town, U.S.A.”, in The New York Times",
"text": "Even in the Midwestern summer heat, Al’s dogs hit the spot. Chicago is indisputably a hot-dog town, and there may be no better time than summer to feel that sunshine in your hands.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To be particularly pleasing or appropriate; to be just right."
],
"links": [
[
"particularly",
"particularly"
],
[
"pleasing",
"pleasing"
],
[
"appropriate",
"appropriate"
],
[
"right",
"right"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(idiomatic, informal) To be particularly pleasing or appropriate; to be just right."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "hit the button"
}
],
"tags": [
"idiomatic",
"informal"
]
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "qiàdàohǎochù",
"sense": "be particularly pleasing or appropriate",
"word": "恰到好处"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "be particularly pleasing or appropriate",
"word": "sopia kuin valettu"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "be particularly pleasing or appropriate",
"word": "tulla hyvään saumaan"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "be particularly pleasing or appropriate",
"word": "olla poikaa"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "be particularly pleasing or appropriate",
"word": "tehdä poikaa"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "be particularly pleasing or appropriate",
"word": "tehdä eetvarttia"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "be particularly pleasing or appropriate",
"word": "mettre dans le mille"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "be particularly pleasing or appropriate",
"word": "faire mouche"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "be particularly pleasing or appropriate",
"word": "passer crème"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "be particularly pleasing or appropriate",
"word": "vera hreinasta fyrirtak"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "be particularly pleasing or appropriate",
"word": "vera beint í æð"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "be particularly pleasing or appropriate",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "trafić w dziesiątkę"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "be particularly pleasing or appropriate",
"word": "taro'r nod"
}
],
"word": "hit the spot"
}
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