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.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Boudewijn	BOW-də-vien, BOW-də-wien	Dutch
Geordie	JOR-dee	English
Cuthberht	-	Anglo-Saxon
Mehmud	-	Urdu
Zorana	-	Croatian, Serbian
Pericles	PER-i-kleez (English)	Ancient Greek (Latinized)