"am I right or am I right" meaning in English

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Phrase

Audio: En-au-am I right or am I right.ogg
Head templates: {{head|en|phrase|head=am I right or am I right?}} am I right or am I right?
  1. (colloquial, rhetorical question) Alternative form of am I right, implying the speaker can't possibly be wrong. Tags: alt-of, alternative, colloquial, rhetoric Alternative form of: am I right, implying the speaker can't possibly be wrong Categories (topical): English rhetorical questions
    Sense id: en-am_I_right_or_am_I_right-en-phrase-DcgjGPQ4 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English reduplicated coordinated pairs, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
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          "text": "And next to Rosa is Mont Charre, which is great, but just a hair less great than Rosa, am I right or am I right?",
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          "text": "There are songs to sing, there are feelings to feel, there are thoughts to think. That makes three things, and you can't do three things at the same time. The singing is easy, syrup in my mouth, and the thinking comes with the tune, so that leaves only the feelings. Am I right, or am I right? I can sing the singing. I can think the thinking. But you're not going to catch me feeling the feeling. No, sir.",
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          "ref": "1993, Groundhog Day:",
          "text": "Do you have life insurance, Phil? Because if you do, you could always use a little more, right? I mean, who couldn't? But you wanna know something? I got the feeling ... [whistles] ... you ain't got any. Am I right or am I right? Or am I right? Am I right?",
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          "text": "You take your ileum as Wallace Stevens/and you take my ileum/as Gordon Lish,/am I right or am I right?"
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          "ref": "2004, Stephen Brown, Free Gift Inside!!: Forget the Customer. Develop Marketease, page 7:",
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