Note 12 — Chapter V · “RIGHT” AS A GESTURAL SIGN
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22. “You say not right, old man.”
23. “A right description of our sport, my Lord.”
24. “There hath been a terrible to-do, I could not possibly learn the very right of it.”
25. “You are certainly in the right.”
26. “To put the saddle on the right horse.” (That is, to impute blame where it is deserved.)
27. “The clock that stands still points right twice in the four and twenty hours; while others may keep going continually and be continually going wrong.”
28. “A fool must now and then be right by chance.”
29. “And this wise world of ours is mainly right.”
30. “Some praise at morning what they blame at night, But always think the last opinion right.”
Idiomatic and archaic uses, signifying true, real, actual, genuine, correct.
31. “If they be not right Granado silk.”
32. “A pound of ointment of right spikenard.”
33. “A right pipe of Trinidad.”
34. “My ryghte doghter, tresoure of myn herte.”
35. “The Poet is indeed the right Popular Philosopher, whereof Esops tales giue good proofe.”
36. “Be sure you’re right, then go ahead.”
37. Right! Right-O! Right you are! (Slang.)