right man

right man (plural right men)

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see right,‎ man.
   • 2011, Brad Taylor, One Rough Man, →ISBN:

     Never having worked with Sayyidd before, only trusting that his superiors had selected the right man, Bakr was suspicious of Sayyidd's eagerness to abandon all they had worked for up until now.

2. Alternative form of Right Man
   • 1972, Colin Wilson, Order of assassins: the psychology of murder, page 90:

     Van Vogt's theory of 'the right man' is one of the most important contributions to the psychology of violence; unfortunately, it was cast in fictional form, and so never achieved the serious attention it deserved.

   • 1975, John A. Weigel, Colin Wilson, page 99:

     Like Arthur Lingard, the killer in his story, Wilson is himself an example of the cateory he is promoting -- "the right man".

   • 1983, K. Gunnar Bergström, An Odyssey to Freedom: four themes in Colin Wilson's Novels, page 97:

     It is a questioning of van Vogt's contention that the "right man" is altogether a bad phenomenon. "The Killer might be regarded as a wilful complication of the problem; an attempt to point out that 'right men' are not necessarily and completely wrong" (p. 11).

   • 1985, H. Montgomery Hyde, Crimes and Punishment, →ISBN, page 966:

     Georges Rapin's violent response to Dominique's threat of desertion suggests that he is a classic example of the "right man syndrome".