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am I right

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amIright?

  1. (colloquial, rhetorical question) Said by someone who has just stated what they consider to be anunassailable truth.
    • 1859,Charles Dickens, “Book the First, Chapter V”, inA Tale of Two Cities, London:Chapman and Hall, [],→OCLC:
      "Ah! So much the worse! A bitter taste it is that such poor cattle always have in their mouths, and hard lives they live, Jacques.Am I right, Jacques?"
    • 1975,William Gaddis,J R[1], page323:
      Not a word out of him, he just sat there taking it all in,am I right? Look at their face and you don't know what's going on inside,am I right? Talking about racial overtones, whose insurance company does he think he's working for,am I right Dan?
    • 1985,Stephen King,Thinner[2]:
      "And life's short,paisan. I mean, life isshort,am I right?"
    • 1993,Bill Clinton,Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, William J. Clinton, 1993, Bk. 2, August 1 to December 31, 1993, Government Printing Office,page1467:
      I mean, you're paying for $24 billion worth of training, and I'm sure there's not a person here who could name 10, much less 150, of the separate training programs available.Am I right?

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