quite right

idiom

chiefly British

—used to say that one thinks someone did the right thing

"After I was treated so rudely, I complained to the management." "And quite right, too!"

Examples of quite right in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

In 1962, Lamborghini drove to the factory in Maranello and told Ferrari that his clutch wasn’t quite right. —Sean Evans, Robb Report, 2 Apr. 2024

But Steve didn’t calculate the length of the thread quite right and left just enough that Larry could still make it out of the box. —Corky Carroll, Orange County Register, 25 Feb. 2024

Once there, though, Elodie’s father, the King (Ray Winstone), seems uneasy, while her stepmother (Angela Bassett) fears there’s something not quite right about Elodie’s future in-laws. —Brian Lowry, CNN, 8 Mar. 2024

Either way, a revelation might alert you to whatever’s not quite right in your system! —Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 20 Jan. 2024

Coming to terms with an ALS diagnosis Mark first noticed that something wasn’t quite right in 2020. —Catherine Thorbecke, CNN, 28 Feb. 2024

But even Nicolás Maduro, the president, concedes that the phrase is not quite right. —Gisela Salim-Peyer, The Atlantic, 17 Feb. 2024

Leighton Meester, Haylie Duff, Kate Mara, Blake Lively, and Megan Fox had all auditioned, but none felt quite right. —Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 9 Jan. 2024

Frum attributes to Wilson the dawn of idealism in American foreign policy, but that’s not quite right, either. —Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 6 Feb. 2024