right tack

Idioms and Phrases

see on the right tack .

Example Sentences

We're on the right tack for the Southern Ocean; but the storm-center is overtaking us faster than we can drift away from it.

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She thought she had detected a gleam of interest in his face, and felt that she was on the right tack.

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Does seem as if hed hit the right tack at last, and I cant help believing hes going to hold out, in spite of myself.

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And this time he is on the right tack; it is on ships that the fate of the British world-empire will depend.

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But instantly I wondered if we were taking the right tack for Fraser's eyes grew red with fury.

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