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Hit the Spot

Related to food or drink something that refreshes you and satisfy your taste buds

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  • This is a slang American phrase of the 20th century. To satisfy ones hunger and thirst in the body there is a hole in the body. Anything you eat is to satisfy your stomach and whatever you drink quench your thirst means it “hits the spot”. It lends you energy and peps up your spirits, you surely feel fresh as it restores your energy.
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After a spicy meal in the dinner, the last item of dessert hit the spot to everyone’s delight.

Submitted on February 25, 2019

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hit the spotTo be particularly pleasing or appropriate; to be just right.
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