strike the right note
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The base has to strike the right note between creamy and icy.
From Washington Post • Jul. 10, 2019
It takes perfect pitch to strike the right note.
From The New Yorker • Dec. 1, 2015
Shanahan, with his clandestine ministry-of-information routine, doesn't always strike the right note, and McNabb has struggled in the offense, but whatever their issues, McNabb isn't tossing his uniform into the stands like Young.
From Washington Post • Nov. 24, 2010
Augsburg Evening Gazette "His brilliant talent for organisation, and his ability always to strike the right note, which would take with the masses, were the most outstanding specialities of the deceased."
From The Authoritative Life of General William Booth by Railton, George S. (George Scott)
"Yes, by talking nonsense; I don't seem to strike the right note."
From Look Back on Happiness by Wiking, Paula
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