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View synonyms for straight as an arrow

straight as an arrow



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Idioms and Phrases

Honest, genuine, as in You can trust Pat with the money; he's straight as an arrow . This simile alludes to the arrow's undeviating flight through the air. [Second half of 1900s]
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Example Sentences

Or is he just a straight-as-an-arrow Eagle Scout, far more Clark Kent than Superman?

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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