straight goods


The truth, as in Is that straight goods about how much you still owe? or I'm giving you the straight goods about Monica. [Slang; late 1800s]

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How to use straight goods in a sentence

  • I'll give you the straight goods so's there won't be any chance of a mistake.

    The White Moll | Frank L. Packard
  • “Seems to be straight goods,” remarked Jim, as Joe threw the paper aside.

  • I'm beginnin' to believe too how some of that dope I fed to Herbert must have been straight goods.

    Torchy, Private Sec. | Sewell Ford
  • I give you the straight goods that it was a disguised voice, and so, unreckonizable.

    The Mark of Cain | Carolyn Wells
  • Well, this is the straight goods at any rate, said Cimarron.

    The Sunset Trail | Alfred Henry Lewis