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left, right and centre
left, right and centre
(British informal) also right and leftleft and right (AmericanAmerican informalinformal) if something bad is happening left, right and centre, it is happening in a lot of places or to a lot of people They were firing at people left, right and centre. The Postal Service has been losing customers left and right these past couple of years.