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right you are

right you are phrase: OK, okey-dokey, acknowledgment that a request has been heard and understood.

Phrase

right you are

  1. (colloquial) OK, okey-dokey, acknowledgment that a request has been heard and understood.
    • “Just go!” yelled Mr Big. “And bring me back the booty. Or there will be trouble.”
      “Right you are, guv’nor,” replied Fingers.2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN

Questions about right you are

What does right you are mean?
Right you are means OK, okey-dokey, acknowledgment that a request has been heard and understood.
What part of speech is right you are?
Right you are is a phrase.

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