left and right
Everywhere, in idiom
Left and right are the two lateral directions perpendicular to forward and backward.
Left is toward the side where most people's heart sits; right is the opposite.
These directions extend to politics, where left indicates progressive or socialist positions and right indicates conservative ones.
She looked left and right before crossing.
The phrase left and right or right and left means from all directions or in great quantity: Offers were coming in left and right.
- oppositeReverse or contrary thing
- dextralOf the right hand
- mirror imageReversed visual duplicate
- contraryOpposed in nature
- sinistralLeft-side dominant
two sides · switch · handedness · hemisphere · portside · starboard · place · bilateral · liberalism · symmetry · direction · looking both ways · polarity · brain lateralization · centrism · duality · complementarity · counterclockwise
- spatial skillsmental rotation, spatial awareness, spatial memory, depth perception, perspective taking
- oppositesopposite, opposites, antonym, antonyms, inverse
- pairspair, pairs, two, duo, duos
- completenesscomplete, completely, entire, totally, total
- oscillationoscillation, back and forth, back-and-forth, to and fro, ebb and flow
left and rightup and down
Alternating between extremes
front and back · fore and aft · vertical · above and below · in and out
left and rightnowhere
Not at any place
straight ahead · narrowly · partially · selectively · here and there
left and rightcenter
Middle of anything
centrist · moderate · middle of the road · nonpartisan · apolitical
left, right, leftward, rightward, leftmost, rightmost, lefty, righty, leftish