STRAIGHT UP Definition & Meaning

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straight up

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slang.
honestly; truly; exactly

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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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President Trump’s Treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, walked into that buzzsaw Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” when he declared, “Corrections are healthy. They’re normal. What’s not healthy is straight up, that you get these euphoric markets. That’s how you get a financial crisis.”

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Chloe straight up told them what happened.

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Witkoff, who met Putin ten days ago, said the Russian president had been "gracious" and "straight up" with him.

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Let me tell you straight up what made America great in the first place.

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Murley fluffed another high ball, Harry Randall shanked a box-kick straight up in the air and error compounded error.

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