Advertisement
Advertisement
right out
Idioms and Phrases
Also, straight out . Plainly, without holding back, as in He told her right out that he couldn't run for another term , or When Jan told us she wanted to study medicine, Dad said straight out that he couldn't afford medical school .Example Sentences
The operations left Kilmer without much of a voice but still able to speak, a feat he credited to vocal exercises he learned while studying at Juilliard right out of high school.
Scorsese established the level of talent they were hoping to get right out of the gate.
Most of what Trump is doing is coming right out of the authoritarian playbook....
Great thrillers trust their audience to put the pieces together without being fed a major clue on a platter, and “Holland” breaks that cardinal rule right out the gate.
“You think you feel good, and then you don’t really know. ... Every time I eat something, it just comes right out.”
Advertisement
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.
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Browse