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straight up

  1. slanghonestly; truly; exactly

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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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.
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"You're truly sick, all of this campaigning because you lost a race. Straight up sore loser," Biles wrote on X.

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It's very straight up, and that suit definitely helped.

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I’m a hard person to fit, straight up and down, so wardrobe fittings, especially when I was a little heavier, they were just horrible.

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But the Chili Peppers project also represents a return to Fincher’s roots in music video: Before he made his feature debut with 1992’s “Alien 3,” he directed era-defining clips including Paula Abdul’s “Straight Up,” Madonna’s “Express Yourself” and “Vogue” and George Michael’s “Freedom! ’

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There are scenes that spotlight our leads by fading the rest of the restaurant into the dark, and a dazzler where everything but Violet vanishes into inky blackness as the camera shoots straight up like a spooked squid.

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