Meanings
- alternativecolloquialrhetoricAlternative form of am I right, implying the speaker can't possibly be wrong.
You take your ileum as Wallace Stevens/and you take my ileum/as Gordon Lish,/am I right or am I right?
1999, Gordon Lish, "Aubade", Salmagundi, No. 121/122 (Winter-Spring 1999), p. 2015 more examples
And next to Rosa is Mont Charre, which is great, but just a hair less great than Rosa, am I right or am I right?
1974, William Goldman, Marathon Man, Delacorte PressThere are songs to sing, there are feelings to feel, there are thoughts to think. That makes three things, and you can't do three things at the same time. The singing is easy, syrup in my mouth, and the thinking comes with the tune, so that leaves only the feelings. Am I right, or am I right? I can sing the singing. I can think the thinking. But you're not going to catch me feeling the feeling. No, sir.
1988, The Singing Detective, episode 3What I love about this country is that: its genius. Greatest inventors in the world. It's beautiful: am I right or am I right?
1988, Salman Rushdie, The Satanic VersesDo you have life insurance, Phil? Because if you do, you could always use a little more, right? I mean, who couldn't? But you wanna know something? I got the feeling ... [whistles] ... you ain't got any. Am I right or am I right? Or am I right? Am I right?
1993, Groundhog DayCustomerize the company! Am I right or am I right? For forty years or thereabouts, marketers have worshipped at the feet of the customer.
2004, Stephen Brown, Free Gift Inside!!: Forget the Customer. Develop Marketease, page 7
Translations
German Stimmt's oder hab ich recht
- Stimmt's oder hab ich rechtTranslations
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