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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go straight

"They really do go straight to surgery only for the earliest stage tumors, which makes me think this was a very early stage tumor, and has a quite good prognosis."

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026

So asking the drivers to go straight into a qualifying after a single practice session is a really difficult challenge.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

Which means that if the season ended today, the White Sox would go straight to the best-of-five division series, even though they have the fourth-best record in the league.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

And its defense team, anchored by the First Amendment firm Ballard Spahr, has used that obligation to go straight at the people closest to Trump on Jan. 6.

From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2026

“We’ll go straight to Mr. Pinkerton’s office. He’ll have the costume there. We can’t waste a minute!”

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan

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