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out-front
[ out-fruhnt ]
adjective
- candid; frank; honest:
The politician was less than out-front with the interviewer.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of out-front1
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Idioms and Phrases
In front of a building or house, as in We really need to put another light out front , or I'll meet you at the museum, out front . The antonym, referring to the back of a building, is out back , as in John's out back fixing his bike . The noun front has been used for the side of a building where the main entrance is located since the mid-1300s; back for the rear of a building dates from the late 1300s.Discover More
Example Sentences
A third medic, Pedro Adorno, was out front and he joined them.
“Whew, that guy,” says Jerry wearily, rising to go out front for his set with the New Riders.
“We were following, we were falling in line… no one was out front that year,” he said.
He was in a classroom at the back of the building when he heard the explosion out front.
And he knew Castro was in there because his car was parked out front.
He only sat out front, and watched and listened; and he went away without expressing an opinion to anybody.
I heard a cow low, and I went out front, and there Daisy stood on the lawn.
Even Mr. Enslee's cook hardly knows it's here; he doesn't permit any of the servants except the house staff to come out front.
Lets suggest to Mr. Steele that he rope off a place out front where he is going to have the fireworks.
Haman and followers pass out front where Mordecai sits by the gate, together with others.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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