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

A straight-from-the-shoulder performance of Mozart's last major instrumental work.

From Time Magazine Archive

Federal Reserve Loard Chairman Thomas B. McCabe, a Pennsylvania banker and businessman before he was a Government official, this week gave them a straight-from-the-shoulder businessman's answer.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Senator Platt's emissary, Lemuel Ely Quigg, in a two hours' conversation in the tent at Montauk, asked some straight-from-the-shoulder questions.

From Theodore Roosevelt and His Times by Harold Howland