"on the money" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1979, Woody Allen, Manhattan, spoken by Isaac Davis (Woody Allen)",
          "text": "Did you have the wrong kind? I've never had the wrong kind. Ever. My worst one was right on the money.",
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          "ref": "1987 July 5, Maj. Michael B. Perini, “In Good Hands with Gold 11”, in Air Force Magazine, volume 70, number 7, retrieved 2014-05-10",
          "text": "Two of the A-4s landed on the money. The third was not so lucky.",
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          "ref": "2008 October 10, Richard Friebe, “How Nobel Winners Spend Their Prize Money: Al Gore”, in Time, archived from the original on 2014-03-06",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2011 August 19, The Secret Footballer, “For new boys there's nothing like the big time”, in The Guardian (UK), retrieved retrieved 10 May 2014",
          "text": "I always felt that Bob Dylan was on the money when he sang: \"When you got nothing, you got nothing to lose.\"",
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          "ref": "2013 February 1, Robert Peele, “The Mouse That Roars”, in New York Times, retrieved 2014-05-10",
          "text": "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.",
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        "In the correct position; on target; precisely accurate; accurately."
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        "(idiomatic) In the correct position; on target; precisely accurate; accurately."
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