Typically used in Singlish to differentiate between the "right & proper"/official/etc (by right) way of doing something and the "quick & easy"/unofficial/corner-cutting/etc (by left) way of doing something.
Alice: Hey! Rubbish collector supposed to collect recyclables separate from non-recyclables, what?
Bob: By right, that’s the case but by left they oso just dump them in the same bin.
Alice: What by right & by left?! They should do their job properly!
Bob: Liddat, lor; angry so much for what?
Bob: By right, that’s the case but by left they oso just dump them in the same bin.
Alice: What by right & by left?! They should do their job properly!
Bob: Liddat, lor; angry so much for what?
by AzureArmageddon February 13, 2023

Something you shouldn't have in our government.
by You stupid... June 1, 2021

by Ornery on Main September 16, 2023

by a sponge called bob May 15, 2025

Anti-vaccination, homophobia, misogyny, minimal state, nazism, fascism, Islamism, capitalism, militarism, economic liberalism, neoliberalism, olavism, release of rifles, death penalty, privatization, retrograde conservatism, masculinism/mgtow/redpill, machism, supremacy white, religious fanaticism, flat earthism, evangelism, sexual abstinence, heterosexism, supremacy of the bosses, supremacy of the business class, supremacy of the upper class, supremacy of the bourgeoisie, supremacy of criminals who are military or police, supremacy of the military, supremacy of male sex, victimization of male sex, supremacy heterosexual and civilian weaponry with rifle and grenade.
I hate right-wing.
by Serbize March 24, 2023

Since I got all the problems correct on my Trig study guide, I get to use it on the midterm and I get extra credit!
by RatchetBoo June 8, 2003

Guy 1: so I decided to take a crap standing up today, but it didn't turn out well.
Guy 2 (facing away while pointing back at guy 1): This guy, am I right?
Guy 2 (facing away while pointing back at guy 1): This guy, am I right?
by MmnmmMm June 28, 2020
