Definitions
Wiktionary
- adj. Used other than as an idiom: see on, nose.
- adj. idiomatic Exact; precise; appropriate.
- adj. slang, Australia Smelly, malodorous; often used figuratively.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (racing) to win, as opposed to
to place orto show .
WordNet 3.0
- adj. being precise with regard to a prescribed or specified criterion
- adv. just as it should be
Examples
“In his 1985 autobiography, Yeager claimed that a rocket thruster on the nose malfunctioned and stuck open, but some pilots at Edwards knowledgeable about the NF-104A and Yeager’s piloting of the aircraft that day have suggested that Yeager “plain screwed up,” letting his pitch attitude and angle of attack get away from him.”
“The pianist Aloys Schmitt has been flipped on the nose by the critics, although he is already over forty years old, and composes eighty-years-old music.”
“The boat - stretcher caught him fairly on the nose -- it was the bo's'n -- and the mutiny began.”
“While the sight of a moose-bird almost invariably put him into the wildest of rages; for he never forgot the peck on the nose he had received from the first of that ilk he encountered.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘on the nose’.
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Scriptie: Miller's Crossing
By the Coen brothers, 1990.
ethics, high hat, schnook, elves, schmatta, the fix, guinea, on the nose, greengrocer, bookie, protection money, rumpus and 80 more...
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On Tha's
Metaphorically speaking.
on the sauce, on the rag, on the ball, on the wagon, on the fritz, on the up and up, on the lam, on the money, on the brain, on the flip side, on the rocks, on the down low and 13 more...
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