right

Related to right: right wing, right brain, human right

right

1. adjective, informal Total; utter. I felt like a right idiot after getting my test results back. I can't believe what she said. She can be a right jerk sometimes. This is a right mess you've gotten us into.

2. adverb, informal Very; extremely. That was a right pretty speech my opponent just gave, but it doesn't tell the whole truth. Well, that was a right silly thing to do, don't you think?

Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

right

at a certain time exactly or precisely at a specific place or time. Meet me at this corner right at 3:00 P.M. The restaurant is right at First and Main Streets.

McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

See:

(as) right as a trivet
(as) right as ninepence
(as) right as rain
(just/right) up (one's) street
(my) right hand to God
(one) can't do right for doing wrong
(one) woke up on the right side of the grass
(one's) heart is in the right place
(right) down (one's) alley
(right) from the off
(right) here and now
(right) on cue
(right) on the money
(right) under (one's) (very) nose
(right) up there with (someone or something)
(the) right of way
a bit of all right
a broken clock is right twice a day
a dead clock is right twice a day
a right one
a step in the right direction
a stopped clock is right twice a day
a/the right to (do) (something)
acknowledge (one) to be right
acknowledge to be right
all right
All right already!
all right for you
All right for you!
all right on the night
all right with
all right with (one)
all right with one
all right(y) already
all rights reserved
along the right lines
alright me babber
alright me lover
alright me luvver
alright my babber
alright my lover
alright my luvver
alternative right
alt-right
am I right or am I right
am I right?
amirite
anyone in their right mind
as of right
as right as rain
bang dead to rights
bang to rights
be (as) right as rain
be (just/right) up (one's) street
be (on) the right side of (an age)
be (on) the wrong side of (an age)
be (right) down (one's) alley
be (right) on the money
be (right) up there with (someone or something)
be all right
be in the right
be in the right place at the right moment
be in the right place at the right time
be in the right spot at the right time
be in the same/right ballpark
be not right in the head
be on the right lines
be on the right track
be on the right/wrong side of 40, 50, etc.
be on the right/wrong track
be put to rights
be right back
be right there
be right with you
be set to rights
bragging rights
by rights
catch (one) bang to rights
catch (one) dead to rights
caught bang to rights
come down to
come out with
come right in
coming right up
curves in all the right places
customer is always right
customer is always right, the
damn right
dead to rights
do (something) by (one)
do all right by (one)
do right by (someone)
do right by somebody
do the right thing
do the something thing
err on the right side
everything will be all right
everything will work out (all right)
everything's going to be all right
exactly right
fuck you, Jack, I'm all right
get (one) bang to rights
get (one) right here
get (one's) priorities right
get (one's) priorities straight
get (something) right
get hold of the right end of the stick
get off on the right foot
get on the good side of (someone)
get on the wrong side of (someone)
get one right here
get right
get right on
get right on (something)
get right with (someone)
get someone bang to rights
get something right/straight
get something straight
get straight
get your priorities right/straight
get/keep on the right/wrong side of somebody
get/start off on the right/wrong foot
gets one right here
give (one) (the right of/to) first refusal
give (one's) right arm
give one's eyeteeth
give one's right arm, to
give right arm
give your right arm
go (right) through (one) like a dose of salts
go in the right direction
go right
go right through (one)
go right through one
go through one
God-given right
God's in his heaven; all's right with the world
hang a left
hang a left/right
hang a right
have (one) bang to rights
have (one) dead to rights
have (one's) head screwed on (right)
have (one's) heart in the right place
have a right to
have a screw loose
have a/the right to (do something)
have a/the right to (something)
have curves in all the right places
have dead to rights
have heart in the right place
have one's head screwed on right
have someone bang to rights
have someone dead to rights
have the right idea
have the right sow by the ear
have your heart in the right place
heart in the right place, have one's
heart in the right place, to have one's
hit (one) (right) between the eyes
hit me (right) in the feels
hit the nail (right) on the head
hit the right chord
hit the right note
hit/strike the right/wrong note
hold it right there
hold mouth the right way
if wishes were horses, (then) beggars might ride
if wishes were horses, (then) beggars would ride
if you want a thing done well/right, do it yourself
if you want it done right, do it yourself
if you want something done right, do it yourself
if you want something done well/right, do it yourself
I'll get right on (something)
I'll get right on it
I'm all right, Jack
in (one's) own right
in (one's) right mind
in one's own right
in one's right mind
in own right
in right mind
in the right
in the right place at the right time
in the right, be
in your own right
in your right mind
is that right
Is that so?
it serves someone right
it'll be all right on the night
it's all right
it's all right for some
it's/that's all right
jog to (some direction)
jog to the right
keep (one's) head right
keep on (the right) track
keep on the good side of (someone)
keep on the right side
keep on the right side of
keep on the right side of (someone)
keep on the right(-hand) side
keep one’s head right
left and right
left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing
left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing, the
left, right and centre
left, right, and center
left, right, and centre
look right through (one)
make (all) the right noises
make (something) right
make the right noises
might is right
might makes right
Miss Right
Mister Right
Mr Right
Mr. Right
my country, right or wrong
no one in his/her/their right mind would (do something)
no rights reserved
nobody in their right mind
not (quite) right in the head
not right in the head
not right now
not right now, thanks
off on the right foot
on (one's) right side
on heels
on the money
on the right foot
on the right foot, get off
on the right lines
on the right tack
on the right track
one's heart is in the right place
play (one's) cards right
play (right) into (one's) hands
play (right) into the hands of (one)
play cards right
play one's cards right
play one's cards right/well, to
play your cards right
point (one) in the right direction
point someone in the right direction
press (all) the right buttons
press the right button
price is right, the
push the right button(s)
put (one) right
put (something) right
put (something) to rights
put right
put someone right
put something right
put things right
put/set somebody right
put/set something to rights
read (one) (one's) rights
read one rights
right
right a wrong
right and left
right as a trivet
right as rain
right away
right away/off
right back at you
right back atcha
right down alley
right enough
right foot foremost
right guy
right in the kisser
right now
right of way
right off
right off the bat
right on
right on the button
right on the money
right on the nail
right on time
Right on!
right out
right royal
right side of the tracks
right side up
right side, on someone's
right smart
right tack/track, to take/on the
right to
right to (something)
right to do
right to life
right to work
right up (one's) alley
right up one’s alley
right up one's alley
right up one's alley, to be
right up your alley
right up your street
right you are
right you are!
right/wrong place at the right time, to be in the
right-hand man
right-of-way
right-side out
right-side up
sail right through something
sail through
sail through (something)
see (one) right
see somebody right
see someone right
send the right message
serve (one) right
serve one right
serve right
serve somebody right
serve someone right
set (something) right
set (something) to rights
set right
set to rights
she'll be right
she'll be right(, mate)
she's right
she's right(, mate)
sit right (with one)
sit right with
some rights reserved
somewhere to the right of Genghis Khan
start off
start off on the right foot
start off on the right foot, to
stay on (the right) track
stay on the good side of (someone)
stay on the right side of (someone)
step in the right direction, a
step right up
step right up to (someone or something)
straighten up and fly right
strike the right chord
strike the right note
swipe right
take a hard right
take the words out of (one's) mouth
take two and hit to right
that's all right
that's right
the arse is gone right out of her
the customer is always right
the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing
the left hand doesn't know what the right hand's doing
the price is right
the right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing
the right hand doesn't know what the left hand's doing
the right side of the tracks
the right stuff
things will work out
tick all the (right) boxes
to rights
too right
too right/true
too true
took the words right out of my mouth
turn out all right
two wrongs do not make a right
two wrongs don't make a right
two wrongs make a right
under one's nose, (right)
wake up and die right
walk (right) this way
walk in
walk into (something)
walk right in
walk right up
walk up
we've got a right one here
when it comes right down to it
when it comes to
when you come (right) down to it
when you get right down to it
within (one's) rights
within rights
within your rights
words right out of one's mouth, to take
work out
work out all right
would give your right arm for
would give your right arm for something/to do something
wrong scent, to be on the
yeah, right
Yeah, right!
your heart is in the right place
your right-hand man
your, his, etc. heart is in the right place
you're all right

References in classic literature

In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense.

Bill Of Rights

He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

Declaration of Independence

"Not quite, not wholly right. You have asked for one, not US -- for one, not both; food for one, a seat for one."

Connecticut Yankee

When we say that we should be right in sending him to the physicians if we wanted him to be a physician, do we mean that we should be right in sending him to those who profess the art, rather than to those who do not, and to those who demand payment for teaching the art, and profess to teach it to any one who will come and learn?

Meno

The better to follow this narrative, we shall call the gallery leading from the stairs to the eastern window, the "right" gallery and the gallery quitting it at a right angle, the "off-turning" gallery (winding gallery in the plan).

The Mystery of the Yellow Room

Many a one, also, waxeth too old for his truths and triumphs; a toothless mouth hath no longer the right to every truth.

Thus Spake Zarathustra

"Prince," he cried, "you are forgetting that if you consented to receive and hear them, it was only because of your kind heart which has no equal, for they had not the least right to demand it, especially as you had placed the matter in the hands of Gavrila Ardalionovitch, which was also extremely kind of you.

The Idiot

She looked right. This was in the absence of anything wrong or out of the way.

Burning Daylight

I don't know what you mean, either of you, by right and wrong.

The History of Tom Jones a Foundling

"Since you are not yet case-hardened, tell me what you think right now about the general editorial policy."

The Iron Heel

If we was prisoners it would, because then we'd have as many years as we wanted, and no hurry; and we wouldn't get but a few minutes to dig, every day, while they was changing watches, and so our hands wouldn't get blistered, and we could keep it up right along, year in and year out, and do it right, and the way it ought to be done.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

"It is correct," said the King, "so far as the numbers and sexes are concerned, though I know not what you mean by 'right' and 'left'.

Flatland

It seems, then, requisite for the establishment of a state, that all, or at least many of these particulars should be well canvassed and inquired into; and that virtue and education may most justly claim the right of being considered as the necessary means of making the citizens happy, as we have already said.

A Treatise on Government

The Russians, they say, fortified this position in advance on the left of the highroad (from Moscow to Smolensk) and almost at a right angle to it, from Borodino to Utitsa, at the very place where the battle was fought.

War and Peace

"You said rights," said Sergey Ivanovitch, waiting till Pestsov had finished, "meaning the right of sitting on juries, of voting, of presiding at official meetings, the right of entering the civil service, of sitting in parliament..."

Anna Karenina

词组	right
释义	right Related to right: right wing, right brain, human right right 1. adjective, informal Total; utter. I felt like a right idiot after getting my test results back. I can't believe what she said. She can be a right jerk sometimes. This is a right mess you've gotten us into. 2. adverb, informal Very; extremely. That was a right pretty speech my opponent just gave, but it doesn't tell the whole truth. Well, that was a right silly thing to do, don't you think? Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. right at a certain time exactly or precisely at a specific place or time. Meet me at this corner right at 3:00 P.M. The restaurant is right at First and Main Streets. McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. See: (as) right as a trivet (as) right as ninepence (as) right as rain (just/right) up (one's) street (my) right hand to God (one) can't do right for doing wrong (one) woke up on the right side of the grass (one's) heart is in the right place (right) down (one's) alley (right) from the off (right) here and now (right) on cue (right) on the money (right) under (one's) (very) nose (right) up there with (someone or something) (the) right of way a bit of all right a broken clock is right twice a day a dead clock is right twice a day a right one a step in the right direction a stopped clock is right twice a day a/the right to (do) (something) acknowledge (one) to be right acknowledge to be right all right All right already! all right for you All right for you! all right on the night all right with all right with (one) all right with one all right(y) already all rights reserved along the right lines alright me babber alright me lover alright me luvver alright my babber alright my lover alright my luvver alternative right alt-right am I right or am I right am I right? amirite anyone in their right mind as of right as right as rain bang dead to rights bang to rights be (as) right as rain be (just/right) up (one's) street be (on) the right side of (an age) be (on) the wrong side of (an age) be (right) down (one's) alley be (right) on the money be (right) up there with (someone or something) be all right be in the right be in the right place at the right moment be in the right place at the right time be in the right spot at the right time be in the same/right ballpark be not right in the head be on the right lines be on the right track be on the right/wrong side of 40, 50, etc. be on the right/wrong track be put to rights be right back be right there be right with you be set to rights bragging rights by rights catch (one) bang to rights catch (one) dead to rights caught bang to rights come down to come out with come right in coming right up curves in all the right places customer is always right customer is always right, the damn right dead to rights do (something) by (one) do all right by (one) do right by (someone) do right by somebody do the right thing do the something thing err on the right side everything will be all right everything will work out (all right) everything's going to be all right exactly right fuck you, Jack, I'm all right get (one) bang to rights get (one) right here get (one's) priorities right get (one's) priorities straight get (something) right get hold of the right end of the stick get off on the right foot get on the good side of (someone) get on the wrong side of (someone) get one right here get right get right on get right on (something) get right with (someone) get someone bang to rights get something right/straight get something straight get straight get your priorities right/straight get/keep on the right/wrong side of somebody get/start off on the right/wrong foot gets one right here give (one) (the right of/to) first refusal give (one's) right arm give one's eyeteeth give one's right arm, to give right arm give your right arm go (right) through (one) like a dose of salts go in the right direction go right go right through (one) go right through one go through one God-given right God's in his heaven; all's right with the world hang a left hang a left/right hang a right have (one) bang to rights have (one) dead to rights have (one's) head screwed on (right) have (one's) heart in the right place have a right to have a screw loose have a/the right to (do something) have a/the right to (something) have curves in all the right places have dead to rights have heart in the right place have one's head screwed on right have someone bang to rights have someone dead to rights have the right idea have the right sow by the ear have your heart in the right place heart in the right place, have one's heart in the right place, to have one's hit (one) (right) between the eyes hit me (right) in the feels hit the nail (right) on the head hit the right chord hit the right note hit/strike the right/wrong note hold it right there hold mouth the right way if wishes were horses, (then) beggars might ride if wishes were horses, (then) beggars would ride if you want a thing done well/right, do it yourself if you want it done right, do it yourself if you want something done right, do it yourself if you want something done well/right, do it yourself I'll get right on (something) I'll get right on it I'm all right, Jack in (one's) own right in (one's) right mind in one's own right in one's right mind in own right in right mind in the right in the right place at the right time in the right, be in your own right in your right mind is that right Is that so? it serves someone right it'll be all right on the night it's all right it's all right for some it's/that's all right jog to (some direction) jog to the right keep (one's) head right keep on (the right) track keep on the good side of (someone) keep on the right side keep on the right side of keep on the right side of (someone) keep on the right(-hand) side keep one’s head right left and right left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing, the left, right and centre left, right, and center left, right, and centre look right through (one) make (all) the right noises make (something) right make the right noises might is right might makes right Miss Right Mister Right Mr Right Mr. Right my country, right or wrong no one in his/her/their right mind would (do something) no rights reserved nobody in their right mind not (quite) right in the head not right in the head not right now not right now, thanks off on the right foot on (one's) right side on heels on the money on the right foot on the right foot, get off on the right lines on the right tack on the right track one's heart is in the right place play (one's) cards right play (right) into (one's) hands play (right) into the hands of (one) play cards right play one's cards right play one's cards right/well, to play your cards right point (one) in the right direction point someone in the right direction press (all) the right buttons press the right button price is right, the push the right button(s) put (one) right put (something) right put (something) to rights put right put someone right put something right put things right put/set somebody right put/set something to rights read (one) (one's) rights read one rights right right a wrong right and left right as a trivet right as rain right away right away/off right back at you right back atcha right down alley right enough right foot foremost right guy right in the kisser right now right of way right off right off the bat right on right on the button right on the money right on the nail right on time Right on! right out right royal right side of the tracks right side up right side, on someone's right smart right tack/track, to take/on the right to right to (something) right to do right to life right to work right up (one's) alley right up one’s alley right up one's alley right up one's alley, to be right up your alley right up your street right you are right you are! right/wrong place at the right time, to be in the right-hand man right-of-way right-side out right-side up sail right through something sail through sail through (something) see (one) right see somebody right see someone right send the right message serve (one) right serve one right serve right serve somebody right serve someone right set (something) right set (something) to rights set right set to rights she'll be right she'll be right(, mate) she's right she's right(, mate) sit right (with one) sit right with some rights reserved somewhere to the right of Genghis Khan start off start off on the right foot start off on the right foot, to stay on (the right) track stay on the good side of (someone) stay on the right side of (someone) step in the right direction, a step right up step right up to (someone or something) straighten up and fly right strike the right chord strike the right note swipe right take a hard right take the words out of (one's) mouth take two and hit to right that's all right that's right the arse is gone right out of her the customer is always right the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing the left hand doesn't know what the right hand's doing the price is right the right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing the right hand doesn't know what the left hand's doing the right side of the tracks the right stuff things will work out tick all the (right) boxes to rights too right too right/true too true took the words right out of my mouth turn out all right two wrongs do not make a right two wrongs don't make a right two wrongs make a right under one's nose, (right) wake up and die right walk (right) this way walk in walk into (something) walk right in walk right up walk up we've got a right one here when it comes right down to it when it comes to when you come (right) down to it when you get right down to it within (one's) rights within rights within your rights words right out of one's mouth, to take work out work out all right would give your right arm for would give your right arm for something/to do something wrong scent, to be on the yeah, right Yeah, right! your heart is in the right place your right-hand man your, his, etc. heart is in the right place you're all right References in classic literature In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense. Bill Of Rights He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people. Declaration of Independence "Not quite, not wholly right. You have asked for one, not US -- for one, not both; food for one, a seat for one." Connecticut Yankee When we say that we should be right in sending him to the physicians if we wanted him to be a physician, do we mean that we should be right in sending him to those who profess the art, rather than to those who do not, and to those who demand payment for teaching the art, and profess to teach it to any one who will come and learn? Meno The better to follow this narrative, we shall call the gallery leading from the stairs to the eastern window, the "right" gallery and the gallery quitting it at a right angle, the "off-turning" gallery (winding gallery in the plan). The Mystery of the Yellow Room Many a one, also, waxeth too old for his truths and triumphs; a toothless mouth hath no longer the right to every truth. Thus Spake Zarathustra "Prince," he cried, "you are forgetting that if you consented to receive and hear them, it was only because of your kind heart which has no equal, for they had not the least right to demand it, especially as you had placed the matter in the hands of Gavrila Ardalionovitch, which was also extremely kind of you. The Idiot She looked right. This was in the absence of anything wrong or out of the way. Burning Daylight I don't know what you mean, either of you, by right and wrong. The History of Tom Jones a Foundling "Since you are not yet case-hardened, tell me what you think right now about the general editorial policy." The Iron Heel If we was prisoners it would, because then we'd have as many years as we wanted, and no hurry; and we wouldn't get but a few minutes to dig, every day, while they was changing watches, and so our hands wouldn't get blistered, and we could keep it up right along, year in and year out, and do it right, and the way it ought to be done. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn "It is correct," said the King, "so far as the numbers and sexes are concerned, though I know not what you mean by 'right' and 'left'. Flatland It seems, then, requisite for the establishment of a state, that all, or at least many of these particulars should be well canvassed and inquired into; and that virtue and education may most justly claim the right of being considered as the necessary means of making the citizens happy, as we have already said. A Treatise on Government The Russians, they say, fortified this position in advance on the left of the highroad (from Moscow to Smolensk) and almost at a right angle to it, from Borodino to Utitsa, at the very place where the battle was fought. War and Peace "You said rights," said Sergey Ivanovitch, waiting till Pestsov had finished, "meaning the right of sitting on juries, of voting, of presiding at official meetings, the right of entering the civil service, of sitting in parliament..." Anna Karenina
随便看	haul (something) to (some place) haul (something) to (some place) from (some place) haul to some place haul up haul video haunt haunted house have have a 20 on (someone) have a bad attitude have a bad case of the simples have a bad effect have a bad effect (on someone or something) have a bad hair day have a bad night have a bad opinion of (someone or something) have (a) bad press have a bad time have a ball have a bash have a bash at something have a bash at (something) have a bear by the tail have a beef with (someone or something) have a bee in (one's) bonnet