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To Rights

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In apple-pie order. To put things to rights. To put every article in its proper place. In the United States of America the phrase is used to signify directly. (Latin, ʹrectus, right.)

“I said I had never heard it, so she began to rights and told me the whole thing.”—Story of the Sleigh-ride.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Titus
Titus the Roman Emperor
Tityos
Tityre Tus
Tityrus
Tizona
Tizzy (A)
To
To
To-do
To Rights
To Wit
To (2)
To En (The)
To On (The)
To Pan (The)
Toads
Toad-eater
Toady
Toast
Tobit