eyes right

/ˈaɪ̯z ˈɹaɪ̯t//ˈaɪ̯.əz ˈɹaɪ̯t/

interjection

A command to a group of soldiers to turn their heads right towards a superior officer.

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Meanings

interjection
  1. governmentA command to a group of soldiers to turn their heads right towards a superior officer.
noun
  1. governmentA salute given by a group of marching soldiers in the above way to an officier or dignitary.

    […] they had marched past Poincaré at Peterhof, the Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich stepping it out on the right flank with his perfect martial bearing and an air of desperate bravery about him, saluting and giving this honored guest eyes right.

    1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T. Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 225

Translations

German Augen rechts
  • Augen rechtsTranslations
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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

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