straight-up
Example Sentences
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After USC lost to unranked Texas Christian in the Alamo Bowl to finish a 9-4 season, coach Lincoln Riley said, “The arrow is pointing straight up.”
From Los Angeles Times
She doesn’t typically read clients’ astrological charts — her sessions are often straight up strength training.
From Los Angeles Times
“The arrow,” he said Tuesday, “is pointing straight up.”
From Los Angeles Times
“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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
