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

Now I can think of something and just go to a club and go right up.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 30, 2026

I was like, ‘No. Let’s go right now.’

From Slate • Apr. 29, 2026

At its current price, not a lot has to go right for this trillion-dollar conglomerate to generate market-beating returns—even without Warren Buffett at the helm.

From Barron's • Apr. 24, 2026

“Whenever your investments go right, it always makes you feel very clever,” he says.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

I watched dude go right up to this older lady coming out of Payless Shoes with her little granddaughter in a stroller.

From "We Were Here" by Matt De La Peña