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
Well, I guess it's straight goods," admitted Jimmy, with a sigh, "but it sure is a queer go.
From The Newsboy Partners Or Who Was Dick Box? by Frank V. Webster
“But when you come to ‘cutting the corners’ and pretending that the ball was caught when it wasn’t, that isn’t straight goods.
From Bert Wilson's Fadeaway Ball by J. W. Duffield
"Oh, come, old man, don't——" "It's straight goods," asserted Morgan grimly.
From Frank Merriwell's Pursuit How to Win by Burt L. Standish
I wasn't playin' you fer a sucker, an' yer straight goods.
From Thoroughbreds by William Alexander Fraser
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