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right away
adverb
- without delay; immediately or promptly
Idioms and Phrases
Also, right off . Without delay, immediately, as in Can you bring our dinners right away? We're in a hurry , or We liked her right off . This idiom uses right as an intensifier and away in the sense of 鈥渁t once,鈥 the latter usage dating from the 1500s and surviving only in such phrases as this one and fire away . It was first recorded in 1818. Also see right off the bat .Example Sentences
When we realized we weren鈥檛 going home right away, we scattered to friends鈥 and relatives鈥 homes for the night.
After experiencing a blow like a layoff, you might not want to go anywhere near your LinkedIn 鈥 and you don鈥檛 have to right away.
鈥淚t takes very little to turn you off the path and spin you out and you have to course-correct right away or else you can spin out even further. And then it gets really tough.鈥
Route 101 that routinely flood during exceptionally high king tides, Dura said, 鈥渁nd places like that could be kind of a hot spot for seeing flooding right away after the subsidence鈥 following a mega-earthquake.
It's no wonder that when Racing spotted him a while later, they took him right away - no trial needed.
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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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