all right for you

Idioms

I'm angry with you. This interjection usually accompanies a threat of revenge, as in All right for you—I won't go out with you again. [Early 1900s]

Example Sentences

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I remember driving along in my car and shouting out "it's all right for you, you got your son back".

From BBC • Jan. 14, 2023

“I think, though, that it’s all right for you to say that this concerns you, that it dismays you, and you are always concerned with aggression,” Johnson told Nixon, referring to him as “Dick.”

From Washington Post • Mar. 1, 2022

Alicia flashed back to sharing a drink with Kalinda, during which Kalinda began her role as guru, telling her, “It’s all right for you to do everything within the law” to defend a client.

From New York Times • May 3, 2015

Now you might comment: 'Well, that's all right for you to say, because you went there and you saw it.'

From The Guardian • Jun. 2, 2012

“So it's all right for you to spend six hundred pounds on a golf-club membership you hardly ever use, but it isn't all right for me to improve our property?”

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

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