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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.

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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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