out-front
candid; frank; honest: The politician was less than out-front with the interviewer.
Origin of out-front
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How to use out-front in a sentence
A third medic, Pedro Adorno, was out front and he joined them.
'Please Don't Die!': The Frantic Battle to Save Murdered Cops | Michael Daly | December 22, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST“Whew, that guy,” says Jerry wearily, rising to go out front for his set with the New Riders.
“We were following, we were falling in line… no one was out front that year,” he said.
Inside the Implosion of GOProud, the Right’s Most Notorious Pro-Gay Group | Tim Mak | June 6, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHe was in a classroom at the back of the building when he heard the explosion out front.
Surviving Syria’s Incendiary Bomb Attacks | Paul Adrian Raymond | December 11, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTAnd he knew Castro was in there because his car was parked out front.
My Neighbor the Monster: Life Next Door to Ariel Castro | Steve Miller | May 10, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
He only sat out front, and watched and listened; and he went away without expressing an opinion to anybody.
The Girls of Central High on the Stage | Gertrude W. MorrisonI heard a cow low, and I went out front, and there Daisy stood on the lawn.
Betty Gordon in the Land of Oil | Alice B. EmersonEven Mr. Enslee's cook hardly knows it's here; he doesn't permit any of the servants except the house staff to come out front.
What Will People Say? | Rupert HughesLets suggest to Mr. Steele that he rope off a place out front where he is going to have the fireworks.
Ruth Fielding At Sunrise Farm | Alice B. EmersonHaman and followers pass out front where Mordecai sits by the gate, together with others.
The Blood of Rachel | Cotton Noe
Other Idioms and Phrases with out-front
In front of a building or house, as in We really need to put another light out front, or I'll meet you at the museum, out front. The antonym, referring to the back of a building, is out back, as in John's out back fixing his bike. The noun front has been used for the side of a building where the main entrance is located since the mid-1300s; back for the rear of a building dates from the late 1300s.
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