go right

Idioms  

1. 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.

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Example Sentences

“Perhaps. But most souls don’t need ushering. Most go right to the place they need to be.”

From Literature

“To use a football analogy, when Marshawn and his people came to me and said, ‘Can you do anything with this, Beast Mode?’ it was like they gave me the ball on the one-yard line and I had to just walk it in — and Pete Carroll wasn’t the coach, so I could just go right in,” Alonso said, referring to an infamous play at the end of Seattle’s loss to New England in Super Bowl XLIX.

From Los Angeles Times

"Everyone at Manchester United loves Michael Carrick and they are just scared it doesn't go right. He's done an unbelievable job," Rooney said.

From BBC

“I’ve been around these guys for five months,” he said, “so I know that the fight is not over with that. We can go right back to who we were, which was a bad defensive team.”

From Los Angeles Times

"We look out the window and saw the tornado go right down the strip and that's where my daughter is, where my parents, where I live down the road," a Three Rivers, Michigan resident told the BBC's US partner CBS News.

From BBC