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

"If Gavin Newsom wants to oppose the training exercises that ensure our Armed Forces are the deadliest and most lethal fighting force in the world, then he can go right ahead," William Martin, Vance's communications director, told CNN.

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“We were cautious on 2025 guidance going into the quarter, with everything needing to go right in our view to maintain the prior guidance range,” analyst Nik Burns says.

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Every so often events go right.

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Plus, investors have to continue to believe it will go right and keep funding losses until it does.

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“So I think just getting back to the approach and the game plan that’s been working for the past couple months was big. Trying to just go right at them and attack in the zone.”

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