hit upon English

Meaning hit upon meaning

What does hit upon mean?

hit upon verb

— To address.

— (idiomatic) To think of; to discover or invent.

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hit upon English » English

think of

think

knock up

invent

hit on

find out

devise

come into one’s mind

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He is weaker militarily now than then, he cannot hit the US directly, and he must know that fresh aggression would bring the house down upon him.

The implication of these findings is that early on (perhaps since dinosaurs ruled the earth, or even before) evolution hit upon a way of wiring the brain to produce responses likely to keep an organism alive in dangerous situations.