the straight goods

The complete, unvarnished truth. The conference promises all attendees that they will get the straight goods from industry veterans. Give me the straight goods, Val—is there any way to save the business?

straight goods

The truth, as in Is that straight goods about how much you still owe? or I'm giving you the straight goods about Monica. [Slang; late 1800s]

See also: good, straight

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. Copyright © 2003, 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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But, CDR likes to fly above all the controversy swirling below, so during CANSEC we went to talk to Boeing's chief test pilot for the Super Hornet, to see if we could get the straight goods on that aircraft's capabilities.

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I persevered only because it seemed like a good idea, as the same-sex "marriage" debate rages on, to talk to someone who had the straight goods on the subject or, in other words, someone who had been delivered from a life of lesbianism.

Held in Your keeping my weakness is strength

At AFI, we strive to bring you the stories behind the headlines to give you the straight goods.

Editorial

And without the kind of assistance we receive, there's no way we can ever know if we're getting the straight goods and all of those goods.

Gauntlet thrown, Indian Affairs. (Editorial)

Easy access to the actual judicial decision means the public gets the straight goods right from the source.

Family privacy and the 'Net

The combination of getting the straight goods on life and the razzle dazzle of television hucksterism is just the formula to relieve people of their daily worries and cash.

Holy Man

Only Antonio (Toni Canto) seems at all interested in giving her the straight goods. But they don't jibe with her thesis, and the possibility of a romantic liaison is shoved to the side when Zoe encounters Carl (Martin Donovan), a former prof who's operating an English-language bookstore in the Spanish capital.

Spanish Fly

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