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

Scenes don’t get right to the point anymore than strangers tend to.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

"There is one last thing that I think we can get right, which is allowing the athletes to represent their own brands versus their country," Kerr said.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 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

When you get right down to it, none of us were doing our work properly, because we were all so busy watching Mr. van Daan.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank

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