right tack
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Or maybe, now that he has opened an avenue of communication, I should try to “rescue” him … but that doesn’t seem like the right tack to take.
From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2019
Game performers, many of whom are double cast, pitch their performances just a tad over-the-top — the right tack for this sometimes hyperbolic parable.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2017
Like two other famed headmasters of New England prep schools, Peabody of Groton and Coit of St. Paul's, Diman thought the English public schools were on the right tack in stressing classics, character and Christianity.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Commander who enters upon it possessed by some just and clear principle is like a sailing ship entering a typhoon on the right tack.
From Gallipoli Diary, Volume 2 by Sir Ian Hamilton
"You are on the right tack as you boatmen say," she whispered laughing.
From The Earth Trembled by Edward Payson Roe
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