straight as an arrow

Idioms and Phrases

Honest, genuine, as in You can trust Pat with the money; he's straight as an arrow . This simile alludes to the arrow's undeviating flight through the air. [Second half of 1900s]

Example Sentences

To tree farmer Terry Lamers, the coast redwood with its beautiful “straight as an arrow” form and small limbs is nothing short of an arboreal cash cow.

From Seattle Times

“He’s as straight as an arrow,” said Herbie Hancock, the hallowed pianist who met Carter at Miles Davis’s house in 1963, in a phone interview.

From New York Times

That had been his path, laid out before him as straight as an arrow since childhood.

From Literature

“Destiny is not a single path, but many, Ekon. Some are as straight as an arrow, others twist and tangle like thread. Our duty is not to question them but to follow them.”

From Literature

Actual Seattle streets run straight as an arrow.

From Seattle Times