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straight up

British  

  1. slang honestly; truly; exactly

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straight up Idioms  

  1. 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.

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“I’ll tell you straight up, we could do a better job policing ourselves,” said Rowley, who said he believed the State Bar had historically been weak on California lawyers.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 17, 2026

“Particularly as markets perhaps don’t go so straight up every year.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025

"I said, 'look, I play straight up or else I'm not going to play'. And Bobby loved it."

From BBC • Dec. 11, 2025

“Since then, we’ve been straight up and to the right. This has been the first test of the bull thesis.”

From MarketWatch • Nov. 30, 2025

I sat straight up in bed, looking around the quiet room filled with moonlight.

From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce

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