Hi,
What is the meaning let it right on by in the following text?
" And the courthouse records filings are a great way to ship the drugs. DEA or ICE agents would just let it right on by.
Thanks
To let something by is to permit it to pass. "Right on" here is an intensive phrase meant to say that they would not make the slightest attempt to stop it.
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To let something by is to permit it to pass. "Right on" here is an intensive phrase meant to say that they would not make the slightest attempt to stop it.
"let in on by" means allow it (presumably referring to a package or parcel) to pass freely through an inspection point. "right" is an adverbial intensifier.