quite right

idiom

chiefly British

—used to say that one thinks someone did the right thing

"After I was treated so rudely, I complained to the management." "And quite right, too!"

Examples of quite right in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The notion that the valuation excess is all in the Magnificent Seven giants isn’t quite right, the other 493 stocks as a group sit above an 18 multiple. —Michael Santoli, CNBC, 28 Sep. 2024

Sources close to the production have said the comparison is not quite right. —Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 19 Sep. 2024

Elizabeth Vandiver Clement Biddle Penrose Professor of Latin and Classics, Emerita Whitman College Walla Walla, Washington Fintan O’Toole replies: Professor Vandiver is quite right to exonerate Aristotle. —Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 6 June 2024

Throughout the 7th Arrondissement residence, reclaimed antique parquet wood floors—replacing old Versailles flooring that didn’t feel quite right for the couple’s vision—serve as a blank canvas to build upon. —Kerry Pieri, Architectural Digest, 13 Sep. 2024