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View synonyms for right away
right away
adverb
- without delay; immediately or promptly
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Also, right off . Without delay, immediately, as in Can you bring our dinners right away? We're in a hurry , or We liked her right off . This idiom uses right as an intensifier and away in the sense of “at once,” the latter usage dating from the 1500s and surviving only in such phrases as this one and fire away . It was first recorded in 1818. Also see right off the bat .Advertisement
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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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