straight stuff
Example Sentences
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Carrillo eventually got the kit through the mail, avoiding the stigma of going to the clinic in Bishop, which is "more focused on straight stuff," like preventing pregnancy.
From Salon • Jan. 9, 2022
I go, “Dude, let me give you some straight stuff here: You are not Peter Pan because all of these other things you’ve done.”
From Washington Post • Aug. 26, 2016
There Chet pecks out "Doings," a paragraph of gossip for the local Commercial, and "straight stuff" for the Kalamazoo Gazette.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Tell him I can get work in Sydney, straight stuff, I mean.
From The Trembling of a Leaf Little Stories of the South Sea Islands by Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)
Mr. Williams thinks it will be a great saving of expense, as it takes much less timber, and all of it can be sawed in a mill, being straight stuff.
From Scientific American magazine, Vol. 2 Issue 1 The advocate of Industry and Journal of Scientific, Mechanical and Other Improvements by Porter, Rufus