straight goods

Idioms  

1. 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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Example Sentences

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

Fooled me, and I’d been chumming with Jimmy Scarbridge,–and Jimmy was the straight goods, fresh imported–monocle even–when I first ran up against him.

From Into the Primitive by Bennett, Robert Ames

“Now you look here,” stormed the timber baron’s boss, “you can slur all you want to about my lyin’, but I tell you, Lane, this is straight goods.

From King Spruce, A Novel by Day, Holman

"When a woman talks like that it's the straight goods."

From The Gay Cockade by Bailey, Temple

I was bound to give 'em a little straight goods before I quit, and they got it.

From Si Klegg, Book 6 (of 6) Si And Shorty, With Their Boy Recruits, Enter On The Atlanta Campaign by McElroy, John