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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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.
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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
But beyond those bewildering effects, Lynch was onto something.
—Billy J. Stratton, The Conversation, 17 Jan. 2025
Going back 125 years, Ferdinand Porsche, whose son Ferry would later found the famous sports-car maker, was already onto something at the 1900 World’s Fair in Paris.
—IEEE Spectrum, 14 Jan. 2025
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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
But beyond those bewildering effects, Lynch was onto something.
—Billy J. Stratton, The Conversation, 17 Jan. 2025
Going back 125 years, Ferdinand Porsche, whose son Ferry would later found the famous sports-car maker, was already onto something at the 1900 World’s Fair in Paris.
—IEEE Spectrum, 14 Jan. 2025
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“Onto something.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/onto%20something. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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