英和和英

動詞

right-about-face (三人称単数 現在形 right-about-faces, 現在分詞 right-about-facing, 過去形および過去分詞形 right-about-faced)

1. Synonym of about-face
   • 1930, Henri Barbusse, “On Leave”, in Great First World War Stories, London: Chancellor Press, published 1994, →ISBN, page 470:

     So we right-about-faced and started back again, stumbling as if we were boozed, slipping, puffing, splashing, and bespattering ourselves. One of the boys cried to me through the wind and rain: 'We'll go back with you as far as your home, all the same. As we've nowhere to go we've plenty of time.'

副詞

right-about-face (comparative more right-about-face, superlative most right-about-face)

1. Synonym of about-face
   • 1958, Pierre Berton, Klondike: The Life and Death of the Last Great Gold Rush, London: W. H. Allen, published 1960, pages 210–211:

     The urge to reach the Klondike had become a habit more than an obsession, and when at last on June 30 they walked glumly down the gangplank at Dawson most of them turned right-about-face and went home again.

参照

• “right-about-face”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “right-about-face, v.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
• “right-about-face, adv. and n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.