straight as an arrow

Idioms  

1. 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

“He would hurl himself straight as an arrow right into the great roaring grey wall of an oncoming breaker and go clean through it as if it had neither weight nor momentum.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 23, 2026

Because they are not charged, the neutrinos travel to Earth as straight as an arrow.

From Science Magazine • Jul. 14, 2021

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer slumped over in his seat, although Mitch McConnell, just across the aisle from him, mostly sat up straight as an arrow.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 22, 2020

Or it might be a canvas-covered curve, arcing away from an edge that’s as straight as an arrow.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 16, 2018

The Street of the Sisters ran between them, straight as an arrow.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin