go right

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.

Example Sentences

“Growing up, he was always up at 6 a.m., watching film until we got home from school or practice. He’d eat dinner, then go right back down.”

Read more on Los Angeles Times

“And it’s actually bigger than even this lifetime. In order to love something, you have to let go, right? After the unimaginable loss of a child, it’s through his expression that it becomes immortal.”

Read more on Los Angeles Times

“Like a predictive thing. So in this moment, if we were to go … right and keep walking, but going right meant that we would get separated, then the Adinkra symbol would tell us to go elsewhere.”

Read more on Literature

Penelope had to go right to the edge on tiptoes to get a good look.

Read more on Literature

"We haven't done our jobs and we feel we have let everybody down. When you do that, when you make mistakes, it's not intentional from anyone. All you can do is hold your hands up and go: 'Right, let's try and fix it.' That's what we are going to try and do."

Read more on BBC