your other right
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Noun[edit]
- (humorous) Your left-hand side. (Used to correct oneself after saying "your right", having intended "your left".)
- Antonym: your other left
- Your right-hand side. (Used to correct another person who has been directed to move (or look, etc) to "your right" but has mistakenly moved left.)
- Antonym: your other left
- 2008 October 1, Michael Brackett, Notes from the Back of the Clipboard, Strategic Book Publishing, →ISBN, page 183:
- Finally, I heard the captain say to the helmsman, “Your other right, for God's sake! Your other right!” The helmsman had been turning left every time I said to come right. He had been steering us directly into the Penn Docks.
- 2008 November 13, Fred Tomasello Jr., Walking Wounded: Memoir of a Combat Veteran, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 30:
- "Riiight-FACE!" Some guys move left and Sergeant Johnson's on them immediately, “Your OTHER right, dickhead! Your OTHER RIGHT! God almighty DAMN, are you a bunch of fucking idiots or what! College students, Sergeant Sargent! Our nation's brightest. They don't even know their left from their right."