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am I right?
- (colloquial, rhetorical question) Said by someone who has just stated what they consider to be an unassailable truth, or at least one worthy of an amen (compare can I get an 'Amen'?).
1859, Charles Dickens, “Book the First, Chapter V”, in A Tale of Two Cities, London: Chapman and Hall, , →OCLC:"Ah! So much the worse! A bitter taste it is that such poor cattle always have in their mouths, and hard lives they live, Jacques. Am I right, Jacques?"
1975, William Gaddis, J R, page 323:Not a word out of him, he just sat there taking it all in, am I right? Look at their face and you don't know what's going on inside, am I right? Talking about racial overtones, whose insurance company does he think he's working for, am I right Dan?
1993, Bill Clinton, Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, William J. Clinton, 1993, Bk. 2, August 1 to December 31, 1993, Government Printing Office, page 1467:I mean, you're paying for $24 billion worth of training, and I'm sure there's not a person here who could name 10, much less 150, of the separate training programs available. Am I right?