Word info

right and left

Adverb

Meaning

right and left (not comparable)

Alternative form of left and right

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

From the exterior face of the wall towers must be projected, from which an approaching enemy may be annoyed by weapons, from the embrasures of those towers, right and left. Vitruvius

Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left. Arianna Huffington

Men and women are like right and left hands: it doesn't make sense not to use both. Jeannette Rankin

Liberal democracy itself is under threat notably in the USA, in eastern Europe and perhaps here. Authoritarians and extremists of both right and left are on the march. Vince Cable

If you have a kid who goes to kindergarten and doesn't know what a circle is, doesn't know what red and green are, and doesn't know what right and left are, by the time he learns those things, the rest of the class is far ahead of him. C. Everett Koop

The tail of the cow watches to the right and left. Wadchagga Proverb

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