get (something) right

idiom

: to do, say, or understand (something) accurately or correctly

Let me get this right: you want me to lend you $1,000?!

When you're making a measurement be careful to get it right.

They never get the facts right.

Examples of get (something) right in a Sentence

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Retail media is a novel way for companies to generate new streams of revenue at a time when specialty retail has never been harder to get right. —Gabrielle Fonrouge, CNBC, 5 Mar. 2025

Bloomberg donated the 35 terminals — sparing the city the minimum $1,285 per month to run them — so that his aides could get right to work. —S.e. Cupp, New York Daily News, 26 Feb. 2025

This is one of the biggest games of her four-year collegiate career and a prime opportunity to get right against an intimidating final boss. —Steven Louis Goldstein, The Athletic, 23 Feb. 2025

Rintaro Sasaki zooms up to the ballpark on an electric bike with a brown bag of food in hand, ready to grab a quick bite of lunch then get right to work in the batting cage. —Janie McCauley, The Mercury News, 20 Feb. 2025