Usually means: Achieve the desired or intended.
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  1. hit the mark: Merriam-Webster
  2. hit the mark: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hit the mark: Wiktionary

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  1. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)

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  1. hit the mark: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (hit the mark)

▸ verb:  (figurative) To succeed or work very well; to do the trick.

Similar:
do the trick, hit the nail on the head, turn the trick, hit a home run, nail it, come through, hit on, hit one's marks, work one's magic, frame, more...

Opposite:
miss, fail, fall short, err, mistake

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Similar:
do the trick, hit the nail on the head, turn the trick, hit a home run, nail it, come through, hit on, hit one's marks, work one's magic, frame, more...

Opposite:
miss, fail, fall short, err, mistake



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