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Bull's eye

noun

In target shooting: a score made by hitting the center of the target.

The center of a target. Synonym: bull.

Something that exactly succeeds in achieving its goal. Synonyms: bell ringer, home run, mark. "Scored a bull's eye" , "Hit the mark" , "The president's speech was a home run"

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"Bull's eye" Quotes from Famous Books

... laugh at my folly; I really don't know how to excuse myself. See, the little one has pulled my star from the chain. But I think, my brother, you will give me a new one to-day if I should hit the bull's eye. Shall I shoot first, or ...

— Uarda • Georg Ebers

... mistletoe up over the folding doors," commanded the corporal, handing him a bamboo shoot, and pointing to the tent door. "Now when she comes asailin' in to dinner, all unaware of your presence, smack her a good one, right on the bull's eye." ...

— The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy - A Book for Young and Old • Florence Partello Stuart

... instinct, as instinct reads the weather or season signs, or the sea mile posts that lead the seals and sea elephants thousands of leagues to strike some particular beach as an arrow strikes the bull's eye ...

— The Beach of Dreams • H. De Vere Stacpoole

... true. No conscientious judge of character could have denied that Paul had hit the bull's eye. Bredin was a pig. He looked like a pig; he ate like a pig; he grunted like a pig. He had the lavish embonpoint of a pig. Also a porcine soul. If you had tied a bit of blue ribbon round his neck you could have won prizes with ...

— The Man Upstairs and Other Stories • P. G. Wodehouse

... aim at anybody. I'll make you a target and when you get so you can hit the bull's eye three times out of five at a distance of fifteen feet I'll give you a better bow. Is it ...

— Ethel Morton at Rose House • Mabell S. C. Smith

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