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It really likes this phrase
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"You've hit the nail on the head!"
For all my non-english speaking bros
LOL it did take me a sec, like "You WERE smart but AI lobotomizes you." ๐
Thank you! And DAMN I was way too far off. My last guess was that it has to do with Vlad the impaler nailing stuff to peoples' heads.
This depiction is not what the idiom means though, when you take it literally.
Actually i think in English you say you hit the nail on the head, so if you take it literally you can pick any head you like. In Dutch you'd say you hit a nail on it's head which is much clearer to someone who takes it literally.
Not really, the specification of "the head" would refer to the head of the nail in the context of the idiom, because that's the only thing in the idiom with a head so it's the only head it can refer to.
But if you take it literally it can be any head you see right, because you're not seeing it within the scope of the idiom but the scope of your direct surrounding? Otherwise nvm, i'm not a native speaker so whatever.
No, you're right. It's just English being funny and context dependant. You can easily misread things by mistake. That's how a lot of puns and jokes work