go straight

Idioms  

1. Become a law-abiding person; abandon crime. For example, Once he got out on probation, he swore he would go straight. The use of straight in the sense of “honest” dates from the 1500s and probably alludes to the opposite of crooked, used in the sense of “dishonest” from the 13th century on.

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Washington gives Amman roughly $1.45 billion annually, including around $800 million that go straight to government coffers for budgetary support.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026

Synear Foods’ pork-and-mushroom shumai, sold at Costco and H Mart, can go straight from the freezer to the steamer and be served right in the basket.

From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2026

Taken together, the sculptures testify to the nearly impossible challenge of rendering beauty from stone, a lesson lost when the eyes go straight to David and hindsight bias prevails.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 2026

She told Williams: "If we started in Singapore, we'd go straight to Raffles, have a few cocktails, and we'd be on the next plane home."

From BBC ● May 25, 2026

The next thing she did was to go straight to her flying club to volunteer as a fighter pilot.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein