on the nose

Meaning

1. exactly

   The budget should hit the $136 billion target on the nose.

In the movies · 4

• - Ah. - Little too on the nose?Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness2022
• He might, uh, hit me on the nose.Downton Abbey: A New Era2022
• Right on the nose.Sabrina1954
• I'll get it right on the nose.Superbad2007
• He works hard, hits the lobby floor at 7 on the nose.Ocean's Eleven2001
• Tickle, tickle. Be-boop, be-boop on the nose.Scary Movie 22001
• Five or six of them. I want them laid out on the nose of our ship.Serenity2005
• Not the nose! Not the nose!Tangled2010

Learn it in full scenes

• Downton Abbey: A New Era2022
  • Violet Gives Sybbie a French Villa
  • Jack Barber Pitches Filming at Downton
  • Hollywood Comes to Downton
• Sabrina1954
  • Linus Saves Sabrina in the Garage
  • Linus Reads Sabrina's Letters
  • Sabrina's Soufflé Gives Her Away

From the same entry

• cut off your nose to spite your face
• get up nose
• have your nose in
• have a nose round
• keep your nose clean
• keep your nose out of
• keep your nose to the grindstone
• look down your nose at
• nose to tail
• poke your nose into
• put nose out of joint
• turn your nose up at