About a week ago I woke up in the middle of the night, nudged my husband and told him to scoot over because he was smack-dab in the middle of the bed. I then rolled over to go back to sleep and began to wonder where in the heck did "smack-dab" come from.
As I pondered, I realized that smack-dab always seems to be used in conjunction with the phrase "in the middle". You never hear someone say "I was smack-dab on the left of the issue" or "I was smack-dab on the right of the issue". It is always "I was smack-dab in the middle of the issue". One internet dictionary site even uses the phrase "smack-dab in the middle" to illustrate the meeting of smack-dab is an adverb meaning directly; squarely.
I tried to look up the origins of "smack-dab" on google. No luck. In fact, so far I've just found other ponderer's wondering the same thing I am; What are the Origins of the phrase "smack-dab in the middle"?
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