straight up

sentence substitute

1. slang.
   honestly; truly; exactly

Idioms and Phrases

Served without ice, generally said of an alcoholic drink, as in He ordered a martini straight up. Straight was first recorded with this meaning in 1874.

Example Sentences

I think people like those stories told straight-up, [David] Fincher-style.

From The Daily Beast

Being there with a company of American infantry was dangerous enough; going there on your own seemed like straight-up suicide.

From The Daily Beast

But if you ask the American public a straight up question—“Do you support amnesty for illegal immigrants?”

From The Daily Beast

The straight-up fear of a world in which disco singles consistently topping the charts was the new normal.

From The Daily Beast

Perhaps he is straight-up obsessed with former American Idol host Paula Abdul.

From The Daily Beast

She sat straight up in bed, and jerked her hands to her head, and screamed long and terribly.

From Project Gutenberg

It was half-past seven when we got back to the house, so we all went straight up to our rooms to dress for dinner.

From Project Gutenberg

On his chest was a great inkoos with one eye covered, and on his back a hut with trees growing straight up into the air from it.

From Project Gutenberg

There's a little one inside—so narrow and twisted, Jim, that even I can hardly walk straight up it but have to go sidewise.

From Project Gutenberg

We had no more than got fairly between the straight-up-and-down walls of it than Piegan halted us with a warning hand.

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Related Words

• off
• upstairs