Hit the nail on the head

Hit the nail on the head is a phrase that goes back to ancient Rome and is ascribed to the poet Plautus . The phrase can be traced back to the saying "Rem acu tetigisti.", Which literally means "You touched the thing with the needle".

literature

• Hubertus Kudla (ed.): Lexicon of Latin citations: 3500 originals with translations and references . 3. Edition. CH Beck, 2001, ISBN 9783406475801 , p. 359 ( excerpt online ).
• Rem acu tetigisti . In: Heinrich August Pierer , Julius Löbe (Hrsg.): Universal Lexicon of the Present and the Past . 4th edition. tape 14 . Altenburg 1862, p. 36 ( zeno.org ).

Web links

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