smack(-dab) in the middle mod. exactly in the middle.I came in smack-dab in the middle of the play.Not too big and not too small. Just smack in the middle.
middle noun 1 in sports betting, a combination of bets that produce a win no matter what the outcome of the game US, 1975. 2 the waist. From Old English middel and middil UK, 2002
idiommiddle(out) in the middle of nowhereused about a place that you do not like because it is far away from any other towns, houses, people etc:My parents wanted to move to a farm out in the middle of nowhere and grow cabbages.Anyone whose car has broken down in the middle of nowhere, late at night will appreciate what a scary experience this is.knock sb into the middle of next weekspoken to hit someone very hard:If you ever talk to me like that again, I'll knock you into the middle of next week!He was swearing up and down that he was going to knock them all into the middle of next week.
See:- be (one's) middle name
- be caught in the middle
- be in the middle of (something or some place)
- be in the middle of something/of doing something
- be somebody's middle name
- caught in the middle
- change horses in midstream
- change horses in the middle of the stream
- change horses in the middle of the stream Go to
- Don't change horses in the middle of the river.
- Don't change horses in the middle of the stream.
- Don't swap horses in the middle of the river.
- Don't swap horses in the middle of the stream.
- follow a middle course
- follow/steer/take a middle course
- in the middle
- in the middle of
- in the middle of (something or some place)
- in the middle of nowhere
- knock (one) into (the middle of) next week
- knock someone into the middle of next week
- Middle America
- middle ground
- middle of nowhere
- middle of the road
- middle-aged spread
- middlebrow
- middle-of-the-road
- monkey in the middle
- pig in the middle
- pig/piggy in the middle
- piggy in the middle
- play both ends against the middle
- play both ends against the middle, to
- play both sides against the middle
- smack dab in the middle
- smack in the middle
- smack-bang in the middle
- smack-dab in the middle
- split (something) down the middle
- split something down the middle
- steer a middle course
- take a middle course
- the middle of nowhere
- You don't change horses in the middle of the race.
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