go right

Idioms and Phrases

Succeed, happen correctly, as in If everything goes right, we should be in Canada by Tuesday , or Nothing has gone right for me today . This idiom uses right in the sense of “in a satisfactory state,” a usage dating from the mid-1600s.

Example Sentences

When Republicans attack Democrats, the attacks quite often go right to the heart of Democratic essence, and philosophy.

From The Daily Beast

You go right straight into the inferno, and when you get older, you pull back.

From The Daily Beast

Our first episode will really hang a lantern on everything being reset, and they just go right back to who they were.

From The Daily Beast

So we decided to go right to the source, sitting down with the chipper 24-year-old actor to address the various reports.

From The Daily Beast

We will go right into the debt-ceiling negotiation anyway.

From The Daily Beast

Tessa, you are not brilliant, Miss Jewett had once remarked, but you do go right to the spot.

From Project Gutenberg

As it was vacation week, she let Jess go right ahead to settle things while she stuck to the typewriter.

From Project Gutenberg

When we ran into the Jackson station, H. was on the platform, and I gladly learned that we could go right on.

From Project Gutenberg

De white one gits him to go right a little while, den de black one sail in en bust it all up.

From Project Gutenberg

Benson, go right down to the Pennsylvania, and get the stateroom that is reserved for Alfred Stevens.

From Project Gutenberg