onto something
idiom
: having done or discovered something important, special, etc.
When the crowd responded to the show so positively, we realized we were onto something.
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Loading your audio article SAN FRANCISCO — Draymond Green might have been onto something.
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Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 24 Feb. 2025
Knowing all of this and seeing that Samantha is still considering doing it finally makes Gabriela realize that Xavier is onto something.
—Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 18 Feb. 2025
Image In the end, according to data published by The Times, Kirk was onto something: Roughly 30,000 Arizona Republicans who hadn’t voted since at least 2018 did so in 2024, about 10,000 more than the same type of voters who cast their ballots for Harris.
—Malcolm Hillgartner Krish Seenivasan Ted Blaisdell, New York Times, 10 Feb. 2025
Dale Carnegie was onto something: Names have a kind of power.
—Shayla Love, The Atlantic, 20 Jan. 2025
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Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 24 Feb. 2025
Knowing all of this and seeing that Samantha is still considering doing it finally makes Gabriela realize that Xavier is onto something.
—Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 18 Feb. 2025
Image In the end, according to data published by The Times, Kirk was onto something: Roughly 30,000 Arizona Republicans who hadn’t voted since at least 2018 did so in 2024, about 10,000 more than the same type of voters who cast their ballots for Harris.
—Malcolm Hillgartner Krish Seenivasan Ted Blaisdell, New York Times, 10 Feb. 2025
Dale Carnegie was onto something: Names have a kind of power.
—Shayla Love, The Atlantic, 20 Jan. 2025
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“Onto something.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/onto%20something. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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