right

right idiom
In addition to the idioms beginning with right, also see all right; all right for you; all right with one; by rights; come (right) out with; dead to rights; get right; give one's eyeteeth (right arm); go right; go (right) through one; hang a left (right); have a right to; have a screw loose (one's head screwed on right); heart in the right place; hit (right) between the eyes; in one's own right; in one's right mind; in the right; left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing; might makes right; not right in the head; (right) on the money; on the right foot; on the right tack; play one's cards right; price is right; put right; sail (right) through; serve one right; set right; set to rights; step in the right direction; strike the right note; that's right; turn out all right; two wrongs do not make a right; when it comes (right down) to.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. Copyright © 2003, 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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