Definitions

straight-from-the-shoulder

[streyt-fruhm-thuh-shohl-der] / ˈstreɪt frəm ðəˈʃoʊl dər /

ADJECTIVE

frank

Synonyms

WEAK

aboveboard apparent artless bare-faced blunt bold brazen call a spade a spade candid direct downright easy familiar flat-out forthright free from the hip guileless heart-to-heart honest ingenuous lay it on the line like it is man-to-man matter-of-fact naive natural open outright outspoken plain plain-spoken plainspoken real saying what one thinks scrupulous sincere straight straight-out straightforward transparent truthful unconcealed undisguised uninhibited unreserved unrestricted up front upright

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straight-from-the-shoulder

With these straight-from-the-shoulder words one of the leading publishers of the Northwest last week took the Administration to task for failing to come clean with the U.S. people on the progress of the war.

From Time Magazine Archive

Criswell has done so ever since, skillfully blending humor, homely anecdote, snippets of poetry, and straight-from-the-shoulder Biblical literalism.

From Time Magazine Archive

Kinmond asked straight-from-the-shoulder questions and often got surprisingly frank replies from English-speaking guides and government officials.

From Time Magazine Archive

Last week Major General Francis H. Griswold, Third Air Force commander, dropped in by plane at nine of the 16 major U.S. air bases to give his men a straight-from-the-shoulder talk.

From Time Magazine Archive

When the straight-from-the-shoulder American takes time to finish his thought, to mold his sentences, to brain his reader with a perfect expression of his tense emotion, then he makes literature.

From Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism by Canby, Henry Seidel