smack-dab

Related to smack-dab: smack dab in the middle

smack-dab

Directly; exactly at a particular place. Usually used to emphasize a prepositional phrase of location, especially "in the middle." There I was, smack-dab in the middle of Taiwan with no money and no way to contact my family. The criminal turned the corner and ran smack-dab into a group of off-duty police officers.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • smack-bang
  • smack-dab in the middle
  • smack dab in the middle
  • dynamite
  • boom goes the dynamite
  • wind (one's) way
  • winding
  • clear
  • be a dab hand
  • be a dab hand at
References in periodicals archive
It sprang into being in "that noisy, murderous, idyllic summer of 1965"--the summer of the Watts riots, but also the summer smack-dab in the middle of what is now the most sentimentalized decade of the century--and continued, through the years ahead, to re-form itself in infinite ways, both in Dylan's subsequent readings of it and in various cover versions, grand and ridiculous alike.
I was surprised to learn that Marsden hails from Oklahoma, which is smack-dab in the middle of the Bible Belt.
So often, smack-dab in the middle of pain, God's grace burns right through.
The company's products, Honey Stinger gel packs and energy bars, are located smack-dab at the honey/outdoor gear intersection, as high-sugar nourishment for hardworking hikers and climbers.
shores, Swedish furniture giant IKEA has placed its new prototype (also the chain's largest) smack-dab in the heartland of the nation.
This Friday, Japan recalled its ambassador to South Korea after South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak paid an official visit to a small group of islands located smack-dab in the middle of the Sea of Japan -- or the East Sea of Korea, as South Koreans call it.
And could there be a better time to see him than smack-dab in an election year?
Stepping inside means running smack-dab into a world's worth of coffees, pastries, cookies, crepes, cupcakes, etc.
Located smack-dab between Dallas and Fort Worth, Irving Independent School District has experienced technology acceleration at its finest.
"The last time through we ran smack-dab into Bush's presidential campaign," says Dianne Hardy-Garcia, executive director of the Lesbian/Gay Rights Lobby of Texas, which led the campaign on behalf of the James Byrd Jr.
Best of all, the Jeep placed us smack-dab in the middle of some of the most breathtaking scenery this chunk of Colorado can muster.
Vain as all this may seem, it situates his work smack-dab in a tradition stretching from Emerson and Whitman to the life of Elvis and The Autobiography of Malcolm X.
Rutland is smack-dab in the middle of Massachusetts.
"After giving AP a try, I decided my heart was in newspaper newsrooms," he told his new paper, which is smack-dab in the middle of Jacksonville, Gainesville, Ocala, Daytona and St.