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ARCHERY IDIOMS
Archery is a sport in which competitors shoot arrows with a bow at a target (target archery) or shoot animals for game (hunting) or for fish (fishing). A target is something one shoots or aims at for scoring.
bull’s eye
Meaning 1 ►
the center of a target
Sentence 1
He scored a bull's eye with that shot.
Meaning 2 ►
to win the point, to get the business deal because you were particularly effective, to say or do exactly the right thing.
Sentence 2
You scored a bull's eye with your speech. The club is going to give five thousand dollars to the literacy project.
Derivation
This expression derives from an old English sport, bullbaiting dogs try to pull a bull by his nose to the ground. Gamblers would place a bet "on the bull's eye" if he wished to make a bet. Crowns, an English coin, were used to bet so frequently "on the bull's eye that the coin itself came to be called a bull's-eye. Later, the term was applied to the black center of a target. The idiom right on the money is also derived from the ancient interchangeable use of a coin, bull's-eye and the center of a target. A sentence in this case would be: " You were right on the money with your speech."
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