price is right
The cost of a thing is reasonable and represents good value.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
“I will buy these shoes because the price is right.”
“We looked at several apartments, but we only made an offer when we felt the price was right.”
“After months of careful research into the local real estate market, they finally found a property where the price was right for their limited budget.”
First recorded in the second half of the 20th century, the phrase emerged as a standard idiom for affordability. No earlier dates or specific inventors are attributed.
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all rights reserved
The copyright holder of a creative work reserves all copyright-related rights, typically including the right to publish the work, to make derivative works of it, to distribute it, to make profit from it, to license a number of these rights to other people, and to forbid these uses by any unauthorized people, thus being entitled to take legal action against infringement.
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bang to rights
Red-handed, (caught) in the act.
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bragging rights
The prerogative to praise oneself for a skill or accomplishment.
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come right
to have a successful or satisfying conclusion; to end well
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coming right up
Used by the speaker to indicate readiness to provide something ordered or requested.
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damn right
Expresses enthusiastic support or opposition, agreement or disagreement, certainty or emphasis.
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dead to rights
With sufficient evidence to establish responsibility definitively.
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do right by
To treat, deal with, or act toward (someone) in a morally just, socially honorable fashion.
Last updated August 10, 2026