straight-up
Example Sentences
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“Particularly as markets perhaps don’t go so straight up every year.”
"I said, 'look, I play straight up or else I'm not going to play'. And Bobby loved it."
From BBC
Half the cafeteria lets out a loud yell of “KETCHUP ROCKET!” as the bottle goes straight up, hits the edge of a ceiling tile above it, and changes course.
From Literature
They shared El Paso and Eastside roots — but, unlike her at the time, Jaime Valles was a “straight up Republican.”
From Los Angeles Times
“Since then, we’ve been straight up and to the right. This has been the first test of the bull thesis.”
From MarketWatch
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
