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go straight
Idioms and Phrases
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.Example Sentences
For example, you can switch to morning or lunchtime workouts or go straight to the gym instead of stopping at home first.
Why do the right-wing guys always go straight to the Nazis and Hitler?
When I leave one checkpoint, I like to go straight to the next one.
So I decided to go straight to the source—which is how Bugg and I have hit upon the topic of time signatures.
Smugglers still most often go straight through law enforcement, via corruption.
I suppose I must take you down to see the old man, and then we'll go straight off to Rome, and finish the winter there.
I fled post-haste, and shall go straight to Sasha without stopping at Milan.
I had rather go straight from here without another glance at her unconscious face.
I meant to pouch my winnings and go straight to my wife and say, 'Peccavi,' and I should hear her say to me, 'Go and sin no more.'
Let a writer go straight to the point as directly as the hindrances of language will allow.
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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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