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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Example Sentences

The development and adoption of AI may not go straight from point A to point B. It may very well zigzag, just as the internet economy did.

From Barron's

Rather than his obituaries, readers should go straight to Norman’s autobiographical essays and books.

From The Wall Street Journal

So that you would do a take and sometimes it would go straight into the edit and he could show you it in the movie itself.

From Los Angeles Times

In a criminal case, if a jail interferes with attorney-client conversations, you can go straight to federal court and get a judge to stop it.

From Slate

Many opt to go straight into the workforce instead, a choice that Alex said “is pretty clear for most” of his peers.

From Los Angeles Times