right and left

Idioms and Phrases

In or from all directions, on every side, as in Questions were coming right and left , or She was giving orders right and left . This idiom, first recorded in 1839, uses the directions right and left to signify all sides.

Example Sentences

The extreme right-and left-hand sides of the bridge are called “Place where the Sun sits down.”

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I can't remember ever having met a better right-and-left-hand snorter.

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We finally, deployed by a 43 perpendicular-horizontal-right-and-left-oblique, gained the other side of the brook and the trail.

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We done our grand right-and-left with knapsacks on our backs and blisters on our feet.

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The right-and-left movements involved the crossing of the images.

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