right and left

1. 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

Its legal defeat this week is even bigger news, because it’s a blow to a condominium on the right and left that wants to use antitrust law to punish politically disfavored businesses.

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Jara, this election is likely to solidify Chile’s reputation as a developing world success story, and an example of how institutions can withstand the extremes of right and left wing populism now buffeting the region.

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Absent economic growth, voters are unhappy and drifting to parties on the far right and left.

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It’s also about an increasingly frantic effort to portray the most pronounced national struggle as one between right and left, rather than between the people who have everything and the people struggling daily to hold onto whatever they can.

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Rogers can also play from the right and left wing but, with Bukayo Saka occupying the right side and Marcus Rashford liked by Tuchel from the left, Rogers may be unlucky to drop out.

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