get right

Idioms  

1. Understand accurately or do correctly, as in If I get it right, you're not leaving until tomorrow, or The faucet works perfectly; the plumber finally got it right. [First half of 1900s]

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get right

Lethal injection has proven to be a difficult execution method to get right.

From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026

Head coach Powell has been around the block and knows just how difficult this one-off final is to get right even with a season's worth of momentum behind a team.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

It’s a tough market to get right, however, as upper-end homes continue to appreciate, but other pockets of the market not as much.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026

ByteDance also released one called Seed3D 2.0 in April, which it says improves on details that are hard for AI tools to get right, such as sharp edges and thin walls.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

You’d get right up out of your grave you know you would.

From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner

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