on the money
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.61 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Did you have the wrong kind? I've never had the wrong kind. Ever. My worst one was right on the money."
- "Two of the A-4s landed on the money. The third was not so lucky."
- "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."
- "I always felt that Bob Dylan was on the money when he sang: "When you got nothing, you got nothing to lose.""
- "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."
- "Tuchel's side were on the money from the first whistle, the only surprise being it took them 33 minutes to break the deadlock."
Inflected Forms
right on the money (alternative)