straight-ahead
直截了当,直截了当的,直截了当地,直来直去
Definitions
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- : not deviating from what is usual or expected; conventional or traditional; standard: a straight-ahead novel with a happy ending.
Examples
In secret, before the referendum, the council went ahead and fluoridated the water anyway.
In straight relationships with an age gap, words like ‘gold-digger’ and ‘trophy wife’ get thrown around.
Except the Braves did not win 14 straight pennants (they did win 14 straight division titles), and Smoltz is a also Republican.
Bush busy engaging constituents on both sides of the same-sex marriage debate ahead of the 2004 presidential election.
They let us get ahead of the outfit, then the rest of the guys came in.
Suddenly, however, he became aware of a small black spot far ahead in the very middle of the unencumbered track.
She sat straight up in bed, and jerked her hands to her head, and screamed long and terribly.
This wasn't at all what he meant to say, and it sounded very ridiculous; but somehow the words wouldn't come straight.
She had listened—she had listened intently, looking straight out of the window and without moving.
The thought seemed to produce the dreaded object, for next moment a large hummock appeared right ahead.