right off the bat

Meaning

1. Oxford100% of films

   immediately; without delay

   I guess I shouldn't say all that stuff right off the bat like that.

   I just hadn't been in love before, and I just fell hardcore, right off the bat.

In the movies · 9

• I want to say something right off the bat.Black Widow2021
• First thing, right off the bat, I'd like to apologize.Buffalo '661998
• I just hadn't been in love before, and I just fell hardcore, right off the bat.The Dawn Wall2017
• And Bender Rodriguez picks up a lucky deal right off the bat.Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder2009
• But we try not to focus on that aspect of it too much right off the bat.You Can Count on Me2000
• I clocked that tall strip of bacon with that fake-ass Louis Vuitton hat right off the bat.Baby Driver2017
• I guess I shouldn't say all that stuff right off the bat like that.Time After Time1979
• - You can do that, right? - There's some gimmes right off the bat.The Martian2015

Learn it in full scenes

• Buffalo '661998
  • Billy Calls His Mother From the Hotel
  • Billy Kidnaps Layla
  • Billy Can't Drive a Stick Shift
• The Dawn Wall2017
  • Tommy's Father Toughens Him Up
  • Tommy Caldwell Wins Snowbird
  • Climbers Taken Hostage in Kyrgyzstan

From the same entry

• give your right arm for do
• in your right mind
• right as rain
• right enough
• right on
• right side up
• she'll be right
• too right
• push all the buttons
• get off on the right foot
• have your head screwed on
• heart is in the right place

More slang

• son of a bitch
• way to go
• what the fuck
• on the house
• call it a night
• over my dead body
• get lost
• i swear to god
• scare the shit out of
• break a leg
• for crying out loud
• bug the hell out of