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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go right

What money the nonprofit groups do receive will go right back into “continuing the work,” Iyer said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026

But a lot has to go right for this plastic moment to solidify into something better.

From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026

So I’m quite the unlikely person to write a piece about what could go right with privacy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026

"Lots of things have to go right in order for revenue and profits to grow to justify that valuation," he said.

From Barron's ● May 20, 2026

“Why don’t you just skip ten and go right to eleven? Or tell everybody your birth certificate was wrong and you just found out you’re really twenty-one.”

From "Wringer" by Jerry Spinelli