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all right with one
Idioms and Phrases
Also, all right by one . Agreeable to someone. For example, If you want to practice now, that's all right with me . Although all right alone has signified acquiescence much longer (see all right , def. 5), the addition of with someone (or, sometimes, by someone ) dates from the mid-1900s.Example Sentences
It knows you know that these people are going to be all right with one another by the episode's end, whatever they say 鈥 it's like a less hostile "All in the Family" 鈥 and doesn't mess with phony expectations of disaster.
鈥淎ll right, with one exception, then.鈥
The live auction was lively, all right, with one of the highest bids going to 鈥淭he Art of Drinking Whiskey with Garth Stein.鈥
He had the trapeze-bar all right with one hand; the thing was to let go with the other.
You can fetch Jake all right with one of these.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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