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
I wasn't playin' you fer a sucker, an' yer straight goods.
From Thoroughbreds by William Alexander Fraser
"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
It's straight goods: Weary's as full as he can git and top a horse.
From The Lonesome Trail and Other Stories by B. M. Bower
Besides being a paint slinger of promise, she's the straight goods.
From Miss Pat at Artemis Lodge by Pemberton Ginther
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