go straight

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.

Example Sentences

A blackout or formulary exclusion isn’t a loss for the supplier anymore—customers can go straight to the source instead.

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He wrote that he doesn’t take steroids, so he planned to play in the game then go straight into surgery.

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I thought we were going to go straight to that park, but apparently the water is too shallow to unload the obelisk near there.

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They want income caps on who can receive the tax credits, and are proposing the tax dollars bypass insurance companies and go straight to individuals - although the details are unclear.

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Gorka defended blowing up boats because of Venezuela’s links to “other bad actors, other states, other nations who, for example, have been plotting to target members of this administration, including the president. Iran’s tentacles into this hemisphere go straight through Caracas and Venezuela.”

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