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Prepositional phrase
to rights
- 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 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. , volume I, London: Benj Motte, , →OCLC, part I (A Voyage to Lilliput):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.
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