Does this sound natural to native speakers? [closed]

I hit the nail on the head when I had to decide to build this project from scratch.

Solution 1:

This doesn't sound right because the phrase 'hit the nail on the head' implicitly suggests that one has chosen the right option amongst a choice of options. But in your sentence there isn't any sense of there being a search for options. In other words, some contextual information is missingand this might require additional sentences.

Although classically, the unit of sense is the sentence, in some/many cases the sense is carroed across several sentences.

Plus stylistically speaking, the sentence seems rather cliched. After all, you've used two cliches in one sentence: "hitting the nail on the head" and "from scratch".