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right and left
Idioms and Phrases
In or from all directions, on every side, as in Questions were coming right and left , or She was giving orders right and left . This idiom, first recorded in 1839, uses the directions right and left to signify all sides.Example Sentences
The extreme right-and left-hand sides of the bridge are called “Place where the Sun sits down.”
I can't remember ever having met a better right-and-left-hand snorter.
We finally, deployed by a 43 perpendicular-horizontal-right-and-left-oblique, gained the other side of the brook and the trail.
We done our grand right-and-left with knapsacks on our backs and blisters on our feet.
The right-and-left movements involved the crossing of the images.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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