left and right
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]- (shooting, literal) Two rapid successful shots from a double-barrelled gun.
- Alternative form: right and left
- 1956, Gerald Durrell, chapter 12, in My Family and Other Animals, London: Penguin, pages 180-81:
- Apparently a left-and-a-right in hunting parlance meant to shoot and kill two birds or animals in quick succession, first with your left barrel and then with your right.
Adverb
[edit]left and right (not comparable)
- (figurative, chiefly Canada, US) All over the place; indiscriminately; frequently or excessively.
- Alternative forms: left, right and center; left, right and centre; right, left and center; right, left and centre; left, right, and center; left, right, and centre; right, left, and center; right, left, and centre; right and left
- You can't expect to eat desserts left and right and not gain weight.
- 2014, Linus Torvalds, DebConf: Q&A with Linus Torvalds:
- And then all the distributions come in and they screw it all up. Because they break binary compatibility left and right
Translations
[edit]all over the place
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