hit the high notes
Reach peak performance
To hit the high notes is to sing the highest pitches in a piece of music successfully: She really hit the high notes in that aria.
Figuratively, it means to achieve the most demanding or impressive parts of something: The speech hit all the high notes about economic reform.
Missing the high notes suggests falling short at crucial moments.
- sopranoHighest female voice range
- falsettoArtificially elevated singing register
- singerVocal music performer
- singing voiceVocal ability for music
- beltStrap securing trousers
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- singing abilitytone deaf, pitch perfect, sing like a bird, in tune, out of tune
hit the high notesfall flat
Fail to impress
drop the ball · miss the mark · choke · blow it · come up short
hit the high notesfall flat
Fail to impress
strain · voice crack · screech · warble · squawk
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