it means go to sleep
The meaning of this expression is to say something that perfectly expresses the subject, or provides the most accurate description of a situation. When you are hammering in a nail and you hit is squarely on the head you drive the point of the nail straight home, deep into the wood. If you miss the nail slightly, you may bend the nail, hit your thumb and make a mess of the wood. The expression 'hit the nail on the head' means that you have made the point clearly or described exactly what is causing a situation or problem. The saying, "Hit the nail on the head" is used to mean that you hit your mark, you understood or made the point exactly.
Dumb as a nail.
The Idiom actually reads 'Fighting tooth and Nail'. It means to give everything you've got, literally every tooth and nail in your body, to win a struggle.
It means to start a journey or to leave.
That is an analogy from carpentry. To miss the nail and strike the wood will damage the wood. Hitting the nail off-center may cause the nail to shoot off and fly through the air. When you come up with a perfect solution to a problem it is like hitting the nail squarely.to tell true
This is an idiom meaning to narrow your focus down. It can also mean to narrow your aim and focus on one thing to hit. Picture the zero as a target and you get the idea of the idiom.
I have never heard this expression before. I suspect you heard something incorrectly. You should ask whoever said it to explain the meaning. There IS an idiom that says "hit the nail on the head" which means that someone conveyed exactly the right information or got something perfectly correct
The meaning of this expression is to say something that perfectly expresses the subject, or provides the most accurate description of a situation. When you are hammering in a nail and you hit is squarely on the head you drive the point of the nail straight home, deep into the wood. If you miss the nail slightly, you may bend the nail, hit your thumb and make a mess of the wood. The expression 'hit the nail on the head' means that you have made the point clearly or described exactly what is causing a situation or problem. The saying, "Hit the nail on the head" is used to mean that you hit your mark, you understood or made the point exactly.
Idioms are PHRASES that seem to mean one thing and mean another. Twopenny is a word. It also means something that cost two pennies, like a nail.
He quoted or got it exactly right.
It either means to hit someone on their nose, or if it's an idiom, it means to hit something dead on, or to get something exactly right.
Yes, Shel Silverstein has a poem called "Hit the Nail on the Head" that incorporates the idiom into its title. In this poem, Silverstein uses playful language and clever wordplay typical of his style to explore the meaning of the idiom.