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right
- used as a greeting or farewell TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO, 1966
- — Lise Winer, Dictionary of the English/Creole of Trinidad & Tobago, 2003
- I do not believe you UK
Heavily sarcastic, emphasising the negative interpretation. Variants include “yeah right” and “aye right”. - In every language, the lecturer said, you could use two negatives to make a positive–but in English two positives don’t make a negative. Cue voice from back of the hall: “Yeah, right.” — David Rowan, A Glossary for the 90s, p. 196, 1998
- New century. New parliament. New Scotland. Aye, right. — Christopher Brookmyre, Boiling a Frog, 2000
- The guy did a palms-up. “No-one knows. Just one of those things.” Right. — Janet Evanovich, Seven Up, p. 41, 2001
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