See right-on on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1974 April 13, Barbara Piccirilii, “Landerslander”, in Gay Community News, page 9:",
"text": "\"They [women who cohabitate] do not support the girls they live with and yet the girls do all the things a wife does for her husband, the cooking, the laundry, the housework, and sometimes she even supports him while he finishes school!\" (To which one right-on middle-aged woman in the audience responded, \"So we did the same thing only we had a piece of paper which made it legal!\"",
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"ref": "2002, Liz Stanley, Sue Wise, Breaking Out Again: Feminist Ontology and Epistemology, →ISBN, page 51:",
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"ref": "2014, Andrew-Henry Bowie, The Death of Mr. Grumble, →ISBN:",
"text": "Sid was greying, and small and very right-on when it came to the left. To Mr Grumble, Sid looked like another BTC, graduate tree-hugger, the type that hitchhiked around Tajikistan, or worked in the local library, or charity shop; the sort who would bother him in the street to complete some marketing survey.",
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"ref": "2014 October 23, Laura Pitel, “Charity refuses money from Ukip calypso song”, in The Times, number 71335, page 2:",
"text": "Ukip said that it was saddened that \"synthetic outrage\" from the \"right-on media\" had forced Read to withdraw the single and announced that the full profits would be donated to the Red Cross Ebola Outreach programme.",
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