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Idioms and Phrases
Have the support of fact, justice, or reason. For example, Nancy's parents were in the right when they took her teacher to task , or, as Shakespeare put it in Richard III (5:3): 鈥淗e was in the right, and so indeed it is.鈥 [Late 1400s] Also see the antonym in the wrong .Discover More
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鈥淭here is the Glucksmann who was right and the Glucksmann who could 鈥 with the same fervor, the same feeling of being in the right 鈥 be wrong,鈥 Mr. L茅vy wrote in a posthumous appreciation for Le Monde.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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