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  1. be onto something: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. be onto something: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  3. be onto something: Wiktionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (be onto something)

▸ verb:  To have gained an insight that could lead to future success.

Similar:
be onto, be on to, get it, see the light, capitalize, cotton on to, get ahead, gain on, take on, catch on, more...

Opposite:
off track, mistaken, wrong, misguided, incorrect

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Similar:
be onto, be on to, get it, see the light, capitalize, cotton on to, get ahead, gain on, take on, catch on, more...

Opposite:
off track, mistaken, wrong, misguided, incorrect



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