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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 199th overall selection played right and left tackle at Pittsburgh, but the Chargers see him as a future guard.
Inside, off a narrow hallway, were tiny rooms to the right and left.
Mayer connected with a right and left in the fourth, before landed flashy combinations and hurtful uppercuts to dominate the fifth and sixth as world champions Terence Crawford and Shakur Stevenson watched from ringside.
His suggestion drew outrage from politicians of the hard right and left, who say that France is considering "sharing" its nuclear arsenal.
It was Lowe who finished it after Scotland were dragged right and left.
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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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