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Hit it Off (To)

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To describe a thing tersely and epigrammatically; to make a sketch truthfully and quickly. The French say, “Ce peintre vous saisit la resemblance en un clin dʹœil.”

To hit it off together. To agree together, or suit each other.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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