straight A

Or straight-A

adjective

1. achieving or showing the highest grade or superior accomplishment, especially scholastically.

   a straight A report card.

Word History and Origins

Origin of straight A¹

First recorded in 1945–50

Example Sentences

As a redshirt freshman on the scout team, he chased straight A’s in the classroom and applied early to Haas, which admits only about a dozen athletes in any given year.

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In this, they acknowledged what should be obvious, but that the conservatives conveniently forgot: Kids don’t end up in conversion therapy because of some deep, internal drive to be straight, a message sent to their heart by God himself.

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“I got straight A’s and have become the hard-working mother and wife who invested herself into helping others, serving the citizens, and trying my absolute best to provide things like police, fire safety, better road repairs, and housing,” Wallace said.

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Nickerson: Just to clarify, while you are not naive to think that, I don’t know how straight a line from that moment to rescue, will be something that we’ll get to answer in Season 4.

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Children, if there’s a conflict, they internalize it and they’ll say, “Well, if I only got straight A’s, Daddy wouldn’t have left.”

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