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It's Friday. TGIF! thank God it's Friday it's gonna be fun so do you have plans for the weekend me?
Umm not really I have classes tomorrow I'd like to go fishing but I'm not gonna go when it's really hot so I don't know I don't really think I have any special plans but if I do something special I'll be sure to take a picture and, as you guys know, I share my pictures in our weekly newsletter.
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It means extremely accurate 100 % correct.
Absolutely right. The expression is dead on.
Yeah, dead on, D -E -A -D -O -M dead on.
You are dead on. He is dead on.
Dead on. Why do we say dead on, meaning accurate?
I have an idea and I'll give you my idea after you check out the dialogue Wow you were dead on about what you predicted Sally would call me she did That was a cinch.
She likes you You were dead on you were 100 % right you were absolutely correct You are a genius.
Yeah, that's the idea there was another good expression that was a cinch and next week we will learn that expression it's a good expression today just focus on dead on very 100 % accurate so why don't we say dead on well this is my guess everybody imagine that you have a gun I don't know you're a hunter you're a soldier you're something okay and your job is to well sorry to say it but your job is to kill that's right so it's actually not easy if you shoot something from far away it's very difficult to be accurate in your shooting skills but if you are and you are on target, and the target is dead,
it's dead on. Yeah I believe that's where the expression comes from.
Hmm I know it's kind of a scary definition especially if you don't like the military and if you don't like hunting I understand but yeah it's a good expression anyway.
And don't worry when we say he's dead on, she's dead on we do not think of killing that's just my guess from the of the origin of this expression.
So it's a good expression.
Anyway, I love it. And I do use it.
When somebody is accurate, 100 % accurate.
I love to use the expression.
A couple weeks ago, a guy told me where a good place to go fishing was.
So I went there. And boom, it was excellent fishing.
The guy was dead -on.
He gave me perfect.
He gave me 100 % accurate information.
It's the weekend guys, I hope that you have a fantastic weekend.
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Wow, you are dead on.
About what? You predicted Sally would call me.
She did. That was a cinch.
She likes you. Wow, you are dead on.
About what? You predicted Sally would call me.
She did. Oh, that was a sinh.
She likes you. you.