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straight up
sentence substitute
- 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
Democratic National Committee chairman Jaime Harrison responded “This is straight up BS,” in a surprisingly gloves-off statement for a DNC chair who just presided over a very expensive loss.
“I had to be straight up with myself and be like, ‘OK, girl, what can we get?’
After her mum returned later, Lindsay's parents went to bed assuming their daughter had come home and gone straight up to her attic room.
The birdie putt was straight up the slope to the target.
"He's a loser as a candidate, and more importantly in my view, and I'm just going to say straight up, he's a loser as a man. He's a loser as a man."
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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