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home straight

noun

  1. horse racing the section of a racecourse forming the approach to the finish
  2. the final stage of an undertaking or journey
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Example Sentences

Some hurry home straight from the bath, drops of bath-water dripping from beard and earlocks.

I would sooner have come home straight, but I had it not in my heart to forsake Tewfik till this affair is finished.

P'raps Mick means to take yer home straight away, but if he doesn't we must wait a bit till I can find out what he's after.

Would you rather come in and dine with us—we should send you home, of course—or go home straight?

She went home straight to her husband; he was smoking his pipe after dinner.

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