smack-bang in the middle

smack-bang in the middle

Right in the middle or most central part (of something). There I was, smack-bang in the middle of Taiwan, with no money and no way to contact my family. You don't want the levels to get too high or too low. You need to keep it smack-bang in the middle.
See also: middle
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • smack in the middle
  • smack-dab in the middle
  • smack dab in the middle
  • middle
  • in the middle of nowhere
  • in midstream
  • someplace
  • (just) like this/that
  • just like that
  • like that
References in periodicals archive
One more thing: it is smack-bang in the middle of a residential area.
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He would cleverly avoid arrest by standing smack-bang in the middle of the bridge, avoiding the bobbies of both Newcastle and Gateshead police forces who were separate bodies at that time.
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"What's more convincing scientifically, a flood in the Black Sea, so far away from Israel and the fantasy of a supposed ark marooned on the slopes of Mount Ararat, or six submerged Neolithic villages smack-bang in the middle of the Bible Land?" Kingsley said.
Noah's flood may have started in Carmel Mountains in Israel