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on the right track

adv. (context idiomatic English) Using the correct general approach to a particular task or problem; pursuing something in a promising way.

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On the Right Track

On the Right Track is a 1981 comedy film that was the first feature film starring Gary Coleman. It was directed by Lee Philips, produced by Ronald Jacobs, and released to theaters by 20th Century Fox in the spring of 1981.

Usage examples of "on the right track".

This was less than he had hoped for, but still he had a strong feeling now that he was on the right track.

Apparently he was on the right track, because Hardgraa dismissed his two subordinates, thanking them for a long ride and a job well done.

Also, Doctor Walker knew who Lucien Wallace was, and his very denial made me confident that, in that one direction at least, we were on the right track.

Occasionally we passed a branching off of the wheel marks, but the direction finder on the snooper kept us on the right track.

If your sagacity, knowledge, and experience could put me on the right track, I might be able to do so much.

I suppose not one of us, slewing around corners in the machine that night, had the faintest doubt that we were on the right track, or that Fate, scurvy enough before, was playing into our hands at last.

The idea of a snake instantly occurred to me, and when I coupled it with my knowledge that the doctor was furnished with a supply of creatures from India, I felt that I was probably on the right track.

I kept a bold face before Lestrade, but, upon my soul, I believe that for once the fellow is on the right track and we are on the wrong.

More than once a chance remark by an old-timer has put NUMA on the right track to a discovery.

But the flesh is weak, it is consolation to find that one is on the right track.