all right with one

Also, all right by one. Agreeable to someone. For example, If you want to practice now, that's all right with me. Although all right alone has signified acquiescence much longer (see all right, def. 5), the addition of with someone (or, sometimes, by someone) dates from the mid-1900s.

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It knows you know that these people are going to be all right with one another by the episode's end, whatever they say – it's like a less hostile "All in the Family" – and doesn't mess with phony expectations of disaster.

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“All right, with one exception, then.”

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The live auction was lively, all right, with one of the highest bids going to “The Art of Drinking Whiskey with Garth Stein.”

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He had the trapeze-bar all right with one hand; the thing was to let go with the other.

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You can fetch Jake all right with one of these.

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all right for you All roads lead to Rome

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