You might ought to go below.
source:
COCA
Entry:
1021
Example:
A sailor went by on his way up the ladder of the forecastle, and said to me, "You might ought to go below."
Modal 1:
might
Modal 2:
ought to
Gender:
Male
Race/Ethnicity:
Unknown
Age:
unknown
Level of Education:
Unknown
Home Community, Town, or State:
Unknown
Location Collected:
Fictional Novel
Year:
2009
Relation to Addressee:
man to man
Medium:
Written
Sentence Structure:
1.q
Status:
Naturalistic
Notes:
Source: Micklem, Sarah. 2009. 'Wildfire' New York: Scribner
(author was born in VA)
Full Context: reigners among them understood, but I did not. There was a great bustle as oarsmen -- half of them mud soldiers, for there weren't enough seasoned mariners in the fleet -- ran out the oars. The whiphands played their shrill whistles and the ships drew farther apart. Sailors took down the huge mainsail and hoisted a small square one, so we ran with just the storm sail and the smaller sails fore and aft. # A sailor went by on his way up the ladder of the forecastle, and said to me, " You might ought to go below. " # I said, " Will it be bad? " # " We're in for a bit of a squall, " he said. # No doubt the warning was kindly meant, but I was too ignorant to be afraid. I found it exhilarating, the shrill windsong in the rigging, the changeable light on the sea. A priestess of Delve and her attendants were on the high deck of the sterncastle, chanting and shaking copper disks. Cataphracts and armigers of