What does right-about-face mean?
Right-about-face means Synonym of about-face..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
Synonym of about-face..
The Toronto share market staged a right-about face in the last hour today and advanced in active trading after four hours of dullness and small sales.
So we right-about-faced and started back again, stumbling as if we were boozed, slipping, puffing, splashing, and bespattering ourselves. One of the boys cried to me through the wind and rain: 'We'll go back with you as far as your home, all the same. As we've nowhere to go we've plenty of time.'
The urge to reach the Klondike had become a habit more than an obsession, and when at last on June 30 they walked glumly down the gangplank at Dawson most of them turned right-about-face and went home again.
Use right-about-face when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Right-about-face means Synonym of about-face..
Common synonyms include about-face.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The Toronto share market staged a right-about face in the last hour today and advanced in active trading after four hours of dullness and small sales.
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