• to get home, to hit home, to hit the mark, to hit the target, to strike home
• to feel one's legs, to find one's legs, to find oneself
• to hit out straight from the shoulder, to hull
• to catch a tartar, to find one's match, to meet one's master, to meet one's match
• to bring sy in guilty, to find sy guilty
• to cut sy to the quick, to sting sy to the quick
• to get a kick out of sg, to love