To hit the needle. Hit the right nail on the head, to make a perfect hit. A term in archery, equal to hitting the bull’s-eye.
Eye of a needle. (See Eye.)
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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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