your other right

Noun

your other right

1. (humorous) Your left-hand side. (Used to correct oneself after saying "your right", having intended "your left".)

   Antonyms:

   your other left

2. Your right-hand side. (Used to correct another person who has been directed to move (or look, etc) to "your right" but has mistakenly moved left.)
   • Finally, I heard the captain say to the helmsman, “Your other right, for God's sake! Your other right!” The helmsman had been turning left every time I said to come right. He had been steering us directly into the Penn Docks.2008 October 1, Michael Brackett, Notes from the Back of the Clipboard, Strategic Book Publishing, →ISBN, page 183
   • "Riiight-FACE!" Some guys move left and Sergeant Johnson's on them immediately, “Your OTHER right, dickhead! Your OTHER RIGHT! God almighty DAMN, are you a bunch of fucking idiots or what! College students, Sergeant Sargent! Our nation's brightest. They don't even know their left from their right."2008 November 13, Fred Tomasello Jr., Walking Wounded: Memoir of a Combat Veteran, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 30

   Antonyms:

   your other left