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right out

Idioms  
  1. Also, straight out. Plainly, without holding back, as in He told her right out that he couldn't run for another term, or When Jan told us she wanted to study medicine, Dad said straight out that he couldn't afford medical school.


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Then one day, right out of a clear blue sky, Mama got a letter from Grandpa.

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Papa said he was feeling so good that he felt he could have walked right out on the waters of the river just as Jesus did when he walked on the waters of the sea.

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The instant I saw the log a plan jumped right out of the hollow end and bored its way into my monkey-troubled mind.

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“He could talk a fish right out of the river. Your grandma thought he was the smartest man in the world. He got her all interested in those butterflies, and she wouldn’t listen to my running him off.”

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My head felt as if it had exploded, and I was sure that my eyeballs had popped right out onto the ground.

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