hit a home run
Clear the fence
To hit a home run is to hit a baseball far enough to circle all bases and score.
The figurative meaning dominates casual speech: to succeed spectacularly or achieve an outstanding result.
The new product hit a home run with consumers.
You really hit a home run with that presentation.
- sluggerPowerful baseball batter
- homerunHit clearing all bases
- knock it out of the parkAchieve extraordinary success
- hit the jackpotWin a major prize
- batterUncooked cake mixture
swing for the fences · tater · blast · grand slam · out of the park · run · long ball · triumph · four-bagger · breakthrough · bat flip · plate · dinger · baseball · big league · major league · walk-off · bottom of the ninth
- idiomstime flies, hit the sack, seize the day, ring a bell, break a leg
- success idiomshit the jackpot, strike gold, make it, rags to riches, come out on top
hit a home runstrike out
Delete or fail batting
whiff · go down swinging · fan · pop out · fly out
hit a home runstrike out
Delete or fail batting
fail miserably · bomb · flop · crash and burn · fall flat
hits, hitting, hitter, hitters, home, homes, homed, homing, homeless