2018年1月12日 · "I did not get a 62 in that test! That's straight up crazy!" "Not all gay men like Beyoncé! That's straight up the craziest stereotype I've ever heard of!" "The train was straight up 30 minutes late. Not even kidding." In the first example, we are both denouncing the rumor as absurd and saying that it is "Completely or totally crazy."

2019年9月21日 · "Straight up and down" meaning. Ask Question Asked 5 years, 4 months ago. Modified 5 years, 4 months ago.

2016年1月11日 · Straight up and straight out have the most in common when relating to questions, but even there up seems to imply a little nervousness or anxiety, and out is calm, cool, collected, but direct, that's synonymous with "full on", it's turning calmly and facing them straight in their path, with the manner of a stone or wall, no flinching, just a ...

2020年12月24日 · And I think we can start to dig deep into just this very clean laboratory experiment to tease out some of those issues. For example, you’ve got your straight-up honest people, you’ve got straight-up lucky people, then you’ve got your just straight-up liars. Okay, those are the three groups that I think we would be pretty comfortable with ...

2013年2月22日 · If you told someone to look straight, they might ask you whether you meant that they should stand up straight, or even whether they had been looking gay to you and so wonder whether you were advising them to not look so gay. I think you must mean to look straight ahead. Just straight by itself doesn’t really work well in this situation. –

2020年12月23日 · Sit up straight, as well as describing a person's posture, is an idiom meaning suddenly start to pay particular attention. Those experts were in a routine meeting when they saw the first evidence of the new variant of Covid-19. We only use sit upright in its literal sense.

After work, I go straight home. After work, I go home directly. Are these two sentences completely the same? According to Cambridge dictionary, "straight" has two meanings as an adverb: immediately; clearly; whereas "directly" has its two meanings: very soon or immediately; without anything coming in between

2016年1月5日 · OP: "Mother dished the food up straight out of the saucepan" I only know what "straight out" means. It means FRANKLY or DIRECTLY. But when it adds "of" behind it, I just cannot figure out what doe...

2021年5月25日 · A straight hustle, means an unquestionable hustle. A real hustle. Also: straight, as say, opposed to twisted or convoluted. We say: straight shooter, for a person who is honest and above board. Since a hustle by definition is a swindle, a straight hustle is just funny. Similar to: He was an honest criminal. Not devious. It is ironic.

Probably up-wind, meaning that the wind was blowing this other ship into the narrator's ship. I'm not exactly sure what "spooned straight before it" means, but my best guess is that this ship really caught the wind with its sail, meaning that it was being quickly/directly blown towards the narrator's ship. "Frankie fled inshore smack for the beach"