smack in the middle

smack in the middle

Right in the middle or most central part (of something). There I was, smack 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 in the middle.
See also: middle, smack
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

smack (dab) in the middle

exactly in the middle. I came in smack dab in the middle of the play. I want a piece that is not too big and not too smalljust smack in the middle.
See also: middle, smack
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

smack in the middle

verb
See smack dab in the middle
See also: middle, smack
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • smack-bang 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
Our mid-term examinations this year are smack in the middle of Ramazan.
You could say it was smack in the middle of the Bronze Age.
The installation was problematic at points: In the back gallery, the "Upstate" photos--which position their subjects dead center--were wrapped in a claustrophobic loop around the walls, and as if to emphasize this deadpan gestalt, one of Prince's tire-planter sculptures was placed smack in the middle of the room.
Were that to happen, the protoplanet would then orbit the sun in a yo-yoing pathway smack in the middle of Earth's trajectory, with a chance of hitting Earth.--E.K.
It is just a few blocks from Columbus Circle and the new Time Warner Center, Central Park, Times Square, and smack in the middle of the renowned Music District, which encompasses the best of New York's theatres, recording studios, nightlife, Lincoln Center, and the new home of Alvin Ailey.
But now God's throne is smack in the middle of the streets.
While sorting it our, she takes a summer job at a fancy resort--and lands smack in the middle of a murder mystery.
* You'll open your Sunday Style section of The New York Times and there, smack in the middle of the blushing brides, is the announcement of the civil union of Harvey and Start.
STEVE Martin plays a dentist who pulls Helena Bonham Carter and lands himself smack in the middle of a murder mystery.
Jacob and the boys grew up smack in the middle of one of the nastiest seismic rift zones in the ancient world.
At Comdex, Corel's booth was located conspicuously at the Hilton, smack in the middle of Linux Business Expo, one of the many sub-shows now living in the belly of the Comdex beast.
Smack in the middle are the dancers, some merely longing about the set, while others, in the camera's eye, start and stop, picking up in the middle of a phrase, waiting, changing a facing, relocating to another section of the set.
Voila, you'll be smack in the middle of Clonesville, USA.
Smack in the middle of this area sits Afghanistan, which from 1998 to 2001 experienced its longest and most severe drought in the past 50 years.
your liberation is at hand." As for the church, right smack in the middle of Advental grimness it gives us Gaudete Sunday, a joyful celebration and a foretaste of the good things of Christmas ahead.