left and right

English

left and right (not comparable)

(Canada, US) All over the place; indiscriminately; frequently or excessively.
You can't expect to eat desserts left and right and not gain weight.
- 2014, Linus Torvalds, DebConf: Q&A with Linus Torvalds:
  And then all the distributions come in and they screw it all up. Because they break binary compatibility left and right

all over the place

Catalan: a tort i a dret
Finnish: kaksin käsin
French: à tout-va (fr), à droite et à gauche (fr), à tort et à travers (fr), à dêtre et à senêtre (archaic, regional), à dextre et à senestre (archaic)
Galician: a destro e sestro (archaic)
Icelandic: hægri vinstri
Norman: à dêtre et à s'nêtre
Occitan: a tòrt e a dret, a tòrt e a travèrs, de tòrt e de travèrs, guerlin-guerlan, flisco-flasco, liro-laro
Polish: na prawo i lewo (pl), na prawo i na lewo
Portuguese: a torto e a direito
Russian: направо и налево (ru) (napravo i nalevo)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: лије̑во-де̏сно

Roman: lijȇvo-dȅsno
Spanish: a diestro y siniestro
Swedish: till höger och vänster
Telugu: ఎడా పెడా (eḍā peḍā)
Turkish: önüne gelen
Yoruba: lọ́tùn-ún lósì, sọ́tùn-ún sósì

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