get (something) right

idiom

: to do, say, or understand (something) accurately or correctly

Let me get this right: you want me to lend you $1,000?!

When you're making a measurement be careful to get it right.

They never get the facts right.

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These updates took a lot of engineering prowess to get right, according to Jim Morrison, senior vice president and head of Jeep North America. —Morgan Korn, ABC News, 7 May 2023

Ski socks, in particular, are some of the hardest — and most crucial —to get right. —Todd Plummer, Travel + Leisure, 22 Feb. 2023

That said, this type of opener does take some muscle and a bit of a learning curve to get right. —Maya Polton, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Jan. 2023

Love once again doesn’t hesitate to get right in the middle of the action. —David Petkiewicz, cleveland, 30 Dec. 2022

There are some scenes that took me a day to write, some scenes that took me two days to write, and some scenes that took me a month or a year to get right. —Harper's BAZAAR, 22 Dec. 2022

Experts said the decision about when to order an evacuation is hard to get right. —Jon Schuppe, NBC News, 22 Nov. 2022

Data governance, in particular, is a critical area to get right as privacy concerns mount and transparency in data collection grows in importance. —Terence Jackson, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023

This is an important story to get right, because in the case of Killers of the Flower Moon, this is about an outrageous racial injustice that had been papered over in much of our collective consciousness. —Sean Woods, Rolling Stone, 16 Apr. 2023

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