to rights
English
Prepositional phrase
- Into proper order; properly.
- My shoulder was dislocated. It was agony to have it put to rights.
- I felt ill, but some fresh air and iced water set me to rights.
- (obsolete, informal) At once; immediately.
- 1726, Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels: Voyage to Brobdingnag, Chapter 8, Part 8:
- Then they knocked off some of the boards for the use of the ship, and when they had got all they had a mind for, let the hull drop into the sea, which, by reason of the many breaches made in the bottom and sides, sunk to rights.
- 1726, Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels: Voyage to Brobdingnag, Chapter 8, Part 8:
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