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
"Oh, joke as you may, boys, but I am giving you the straight goods," continued the Little 'Un, handing out a little bit of reminiscent news of days gone by that will never be duplicated.
From A Pirate of Parts by Richard Neville
I wasn't playin' you fer a sucker, an' yer straight goods.
From Thoroughbreds by William Alexander Fraser
Oh yes, it’s straight goods I’m givin’ you.
From Jewel Weed by Harrison Fisher
"Maybe he hadn't lifted it," says I. Sadie swallowed a bit hard at that; but she raps out the straight goods.
From Shorty McCabe by F. Vaux (Francis Vaux) Wilson
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