straight-laced
直率的,直率,直言不讳,直率的人
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- : strait-laced.
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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.
Denied parole nine straight times, he insists he is innocent of the crime for which he was convicted.
Amazing how people can still haul this one out with a straight face.
A new book from gay rights activist Marc Solomon sets the record straight about how gay marriage victories were really won.
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.
It mounted straight as a plume for a little way, until it met the cool air of evening which was beginning to fall.
This judicial bent of the child is a curious one and often develops a priggish fondness for setting others morally straight.