"to rights" meaning in All languages combined

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Prepositional phrase [English]

Head templates: {{head|en|prepositional phrase}} to rights
  1. Into proper order; properly. Derived forms: have someone to rights, set the world to rights Related terms: bang to rights, by rights, dead to rights, put right
    Sense id: en-to_rights-en-prep_phrase-61G0-YBR Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 89 11 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 85 15 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 96 4
  2. (obsolete, informal) At once; immediately. Tags: informal, obsolete
    Sense id: en-to_rights-en-prep_phrase-YGGN6Bz5
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          "text": "My shoulder was dislocated. It was agony to have it put to rights.",
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        },
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          "text": "I felt ill, but some fresh air and iced water set me to rights.",
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        "Into proper order; properly."
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          "word": "bang to rights"
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          "_dis1": "79 21",
          "word": "dead to rights"
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          "_dis1": "79 21",
          "word": "put right"
        }
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          "ref": "1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part I (A Voyage to Lilliput):",
          "text": "Then they knocked off some of the boards for the use of the ship, and when they had got all they had a mind for, let the hull drop into the sea, which, by reason of the many breaches made in the bottom and sides, sunk to rights.",
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        "At once; immediately."
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        "(obsolete, informal) At once; immediately."
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      "word": "set the world to rights"
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        "At once; immediately."
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