onto something

idiom

: having done or discovered something important, special, etc.
When the crowd responded to the show so positively, we realized we were onto something.

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Our ancestors may indeed have been onto something all those hundreds of years ago after all. Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 12 May 2025 Maybe Ackermann is onto something with this suiting approach. Christian Allaire, Vogue, 7 May 2025 Some of Zuckerberg's interviews from 2012—the year that Facebook bought Instagram—suggest that Systrom may be onto something. ArsTechnica, 23 Apr. 2025 Berghaus feels cautiously optimistic that DESI is onto something real, but her hope hinges on dark energy turning out to weaken consistently throughout time. Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 19 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for onto something

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“Onto something.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/onto%20something. Accessed 25 May. 2025.

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