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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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I am giving you straight goods.
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“But when you come to ‘cutting the corners’ and pretending that the ball was caught when it wasn’t, that isn’t straight goods.
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Viewers did not always get the straight goods Saturday night from other presidential hopefuls, either.
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"Is this straight goods, Billy, or are you getting us on a string?" asked Bart suspiciously.
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I know of at least two department stores where you can go and buy all you want of it, and in all its grades—from notoriety down to the straight goods.”
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