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straight off
adverb
- informal.without deliberation or hesitation
tell me the answer straight off
Idioms and Phrases
Also, straight away . Immediately, as in I knew straight off that he was lying , or I'll get to the dishes straight away . The first term dates from the late 1700s, the variant from the mid-1600s.Example Sentences
She recalls a confusing and fast-moving scene: "It was just shadows and quick movement. I just saw them move towards the car, get in the car….and then the car just sped straight off."
That was my first trip to a real bookstore and the first time I owned a new book straight off a shelf.
He could have ridden straight off the pages of one of her Rutshire Chronicles books.
He popped straight off the high jump mat after clearing the 1.97-meter bar and jumped into Townsend’s arms.
"When he hit a three-wood and it came whistling straight off the face right at the bunker, there was a good chance it was going to go in."
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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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