straight A
or straight-A
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adjective
achieving or showing the highest grade or superior accomplishment, especially scholastically: a straight A report card.
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Origin of straight A
First recorded in 1945–50
Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019
Examples from the Web for straight a
Contemporary Examples of straight a
Funke would have been remembered as a pretty freshman or a straight-A student by friends and probably forgotten by most.
First reports detail the shooter as Sergei Gordeyev, a young man around 15 years old, and reported to be a straight-A student.
I think viewers assumed Daphne was a virgin because she was a ‘good girl’; a straight-A student, etc.
Television’s 20-Something Female Virgins: ‘Girls,’ ‘Grey’s,’ and ‘Underemployed’Whitney Friedlander
November 27, 2012
But being a straight-A student doesn't coincide with sexuality.
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She looks very much like the straight-A student she indeed had always been.
Historical Examples of straight a
Well, geeve-a me youse-a da hand and Eesa take-a you straight-a da heem.
An Oregon GirlAlfred Ernest Rice