ten-strike

noun3

1. •
   (slang) A perfectly chosen word or phrase; an exact bit of wording that “solves” a problem (especially in adapting or drafting principles, slogans, or statements).

   • ...when the founders of Narcotics Anonymous ... made a tenstrike ... from “powerless over drugs” to “powerless over our addiction”. — 1985
2. •
   (old-fashioned) A strike; the knocking down of all ten pins with one delivery of the ball.
3. •
   (informal, old-fashioned) Any quick, decisive stroke or act.

   • GREYE LA SPINA werewolf serial, Invaders From the Dark, seems to have scored a ten-strike with the readers of Weird Tales, to judge by the letters that have poured in to The Eyrie — 1925