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Akdom Posted 17 years ago
Vocabulary

Do something ON CUE

I have often found phrases like these online:

How to cry on cue?

How to laugh naturally on cue?

But when I went look for this idiom, what I had found didn't make sense to me.

http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/on+cue

(right) on cue
as if planned to happen exactly at that moment

We were traveling up a narrow river in East Africa when, right on cue, a hippopotamus thrust its head out of the water.

So, the sentence 'How to cry on cue?' mean How to cry as if planned to happen?

I would guess that it means "How to cry whenever you would want to."

1. On cue

What does it mean? Are there 2 definitions of this phrase?

2. On cue vs. At cue ?

She started to dance at a cue from the director.

She started to dance on the cue from the director.
  

Top answer

1-- The definition is as given in your dictionary excerpt: a planned, conscious action at a planned time, or what appears to be such. 2-- Here, either preposition will serve.

— Mister Micawber

  • 1-- The definition is as given in your dictionary excerpt: a planned, conscious action at a planned time, or what appears to be such.
  • 2-- Here, either preposition will serve.
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1-- The definition is as given in your dictionary excerpt: a planned, conscious action at a planned time, or what appears to be such.

2-- Here, either preposition will serve.
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