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about east

Region
New England

Definition 
A synonym for okay, all right, or the proper thing to do. "The late Mr. Horace Mann … commented at some length on the beauty and moral significance of the French phrase s'orienter, and called on his young friends to practice upon it in life. There was not a Yankee in his audience whose problem had not always been to find out what was about east, and to shape his course accordingly." (James Russell Lowell, The Biglow Papers, 1867)

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