eyes right

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaɪ̯z ˈɹaɪ̯t/, (as command often) /ˈaɪ̯.əz ˈɹaɪ̯t/

Interjection

eyes right

1. (military) A command to a group of soldiers to turn their heads right towards a superior officer.

Related terms

• eyes left

Translations

Translations

• German: Augen rechts (distinguished from die Augen links with the article)

Noun

eyes right

1. (military) A salute given by a group of marching soldiers in the above way to an officier or dignitary.
   • 1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T. Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 225:

     […] they had marched past Poincaré at Peterhof, the Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich stepping it out on the right flank with his perfect martial bearing and an air of desperate bravery about him, saluting and giving this honored guest eyes right.