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Idioms and Phrases
Also, straight out . Plainly, without holding back, as in He told her right out that he couldn't run for another term , or When Jan told us she wanted to study medicine, Dad said straight out that he couldn't afford medical school .Example Sentences
That gives the anti-vaccine message an allure of "forbidden" knowledge, making it even more powerful than if he just came right out and said what he really thinks.
The operations left Kilmer without much of a voice but still able to speak, a feat he credited to vocal exercises he learned while studying at Juilliard right out of high school.
Scorsese established the level of talent they were hoping to get right out of the gate.
Most of what Trump is doing is coming right out of the authoritarian playbook....
Great thrillers trust their audience to put the pieces together without being fed a major clue on a platter, and “Holland†breaks that cardinal rule right out the gate.
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