right off the bat
сразу, немедленно, "с места в карьер"
As soon as the students came to school, they were told right off the bat that they would take a test that day.
Другие идиомы:
- right and left
- right as rain
- have (someone) dead to rights
- invest someone with the power or legal right to (do something)
- right on time
- right under one's nose
- mineral rights
- right on
- right hand does not know what the left hand is doing
- right out
- have the right to (do something)
- right away
- right side up
- in the right
- arrow in one's quiver