On 11/5/2019 4:25 PM, Char Jackson wrote:
On Tue, 5 Nov 2019 14:03:51 -0700, % wrote:

On 2019-11-05 1:50 p.m., Ken Blake wrote:
On 11/5/2019 12:00 PM, NY wrote:
"Char Jackson" wrote in message
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On Tue, 5 Nov 2019 17:42:29 -0000, "NY" wrote:

"%" wrote in message
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By the way, Business Class Internet is the cheapest way
to get (truly) unlimited gigabytes.
Downloading 10 GigaByte videos, left and right, is nothing to me.

and after that do you crank it up your ear

I'm still trying to work out what he means by "Downloading 10 GigaByte
videos, *left and right*".

What have directions "left" and "right" got to do with downloading
of data?
I'd have wondered whether he was distinguishing between downloading
from
remote server to local computer and uploading in the opposite
direction -
but he has already said that he is downloading.

I'm sure it's just a (fairly common) figure of speech. I'd translate
it as
"routinely, frequently, all of the time, on a regular basis", etc.

Oh, right. I've learned something today. I've not heard the phrase
before. I
wonder if it's more common in the US than in the UK.


I'm in the US, and I've never seen or heard it before either.



In the first example of
https://www.phrasemix.com/phrases/do...left-and-right I'd
interpret
"shooting people left and right" as meaning literally to the left and the
right of the direction they were running, but the second example, and the
OP's example, are used more figuratively. I need to think less
literally ;-)



common saying in canada ,
things flying left and right ,
people running left and right ,
cars coming left and right

I thought it was fairly common in the US, as well, but apparently not.



Despite my never having seen or heard it, it may be fairly common.
Perhaps it's common in some parts of the US that I am hardly ever in.


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Ken