right away

adverb

1. without delay; immediately or promptly

Idioms and Phrases

Also, right off. Without delay, immediately, as in Can you bring our dinners right away? We're in a hurry, or We liked her right off. This idiom uses right as an intensifier and away in the sense of “at once,” the latter usage dating from the 1500s and surviving only in such phrases as this one and fire away. It was first recorded in 1818. Also see right off the bat.

Example Sentences

“You may think you’ve got it right away and then the floor falls out,” he says.

From Los Angeles Times

“He took that off the table right away.”

From Los Angeles Times

“I knew right away this was my assignment.”

From Los Angeles Times

“If you had told me I was going to be here this long, I would have started the doctorate right away,” Habermehl quipped.

From Los Angeles Times

He wants an end to the war "because of the destruction they're doing to all the cities, all the buildings, making everybody more homeless, taking their foods away, their supplies away, their living right away,".

From BBC

Related Words

• immediately