To hit the nail on the head
Стукнуть гвоздь по шляпке.
Попасть в точку. Попасть не в бровь, а в глаз.
Другие пословицы:
- He that has no head needs no hat
- Learn to creep before you leap
- No man is wise at all times
- By doing nothing we learn to do ill
- Every man has a fool in his sleeve
- A nod from a lord is a breakfast for a fool
- Fools may sometimes speak to the purpose
- Fools never know when they are well
- Wise after the event
- Give a fool rope enough, and he will hang himself
- A fool always rushes to the fore
- As the fool thinks, so the bell clinks
- It is never too late to learn
- An ounce of discretion is worth a pound of learning
- Fool's haste is no speed