straight goods
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If your correspondent is presenting the straight goods, and I believe he is, then I, as one of this country's well-meaning, nonthinking citizens, bow my head in shame.
From Time Magazine Archive
It's straight goods: Weary's as full as he can git and top a horse.
From The Lonesome Trail and Other Stories by Bower, B. M.
"It's straight goods," says I; "I was there."
From Side-stepping with Shorty by Ford, Sewell
"Is this straight goods, Billy, or are you getting us on a string?" asked Bart suspiciously.
From Army Boys in France or, From Training Camp to Trenches by Randall, Homer
Arthur went up to find out about this fellow, if he was the straight goods, and all that—she told me the hull thing yesterday.
From The Second Chance by McClung, Nellie L.
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