A: I don’t think the management will support our plan.

    B: Yes, you are right, you hit the nail on the head. So what do you suggest?

    Note: This idiom means to “get to the precise point,” or “do or say something exactly right.” No one knows the exact origin of this phrase. What is known is that it is extremely old. It appears in the “Book of Margery Kempe,” circa 1438. This was an account of the life of religious visionary Margery Kempe, considered to be the earliest surviving autobiography written in English. Kempe’s meaning in that citation isn’t entirely clear. Some have interpreted her “hit the nail on the head” as “speak severely.” The current “get to the heart of the matter” meaning is unambiguous in a later reference. William Cuningham wrote in “The Cosmographical Glass,” 1559: You hit the nail on the head, in the sense we are using it today.