straight off

Related to straight off: straight off the bat

straight off

At once; immediately; without delay or hesitation. When I walked in the room, I knew straight off that something bad had happened between my brothers. When we land, we'll be catching the next flight straight off—there is no layover.
See also: off, straight
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

straight off

Also, straight away. Immediately, as in I knew straight off that he was lying, or I'll get to the dishes straight away. The first term dates from the late 1700s, the variant from the mid-1600s.
See also: off, straight
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.

straight off (or out)

without hesitation or deliberation. informal
See also: off, straight
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary

ˌstraight ˈoff/ˈout

(informal) without hesitating: She asked him straight off what he thought about it all. I told her straight out that she was wrong.
See also: off, out, straight
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary
See also:
  • straight off/out
  • straight away
  • straightaway
  • without demur
  • take (something) as (the) gospel truth
  • take (something) as gospel
  • take (something) for (the) gospel truth
  • take (something) for gospel
  • take as gospel
  • take something as gospel
References in periodicals archive
"In other words the lambs taken straight off the mountain had the healthiest meat of all, and none of the feeding experiments were able to improve on this," said Prof Edwards-Jones.
Straight off, I got to tell you, I don't smoke pot.
From farm-fresh Jersey reds straight off the vine, through tomatoes served in pill form or made into whiskey, up to what we know now as ketchup, the strange and interesting journey of the tomato through American cuisine is meticulously and faithfully documented in this historical study.
Hemming acknowledges straight off that "This book concerns itself with the memory of Heidegger" (p.
Using Acrobat reader (downloaded from the site) it is easy to pick up any Niro brochure straight off the site and there are also email contacts at Niro for specific enquiries and links.
A pair of fried eggs floating (or cooking?) on a hot puce ground might almost have been lifted straight off a page from Green Eggs and Ham.
Members of the public can tour the brewery and sample barbecue straight off the competitor's grills.
And Lean Generation's Arizona Grill and Tender 'n Easy's Southwest Grill could have come straight off the barbecue.
This newest collection--and it is worthy of the status of collector's item straight off the shelf--looks at the newly freed blacks who built America and stood ready to be forgotten, taking readers "from Emancipation to the Great Migration."
In exchange for cutting senior management into the action, he was able to get cars straight off the assembly line for far less than the cost of production, which he then sold at immense profit through his newly founded chain of auto dealerships.
At 42nd Street, the Philip Morris Company has installed a branch of the Whitney Museum as a pleasant greeting for tourists straight off the trains, planes and buses that bring them to Grand Central Station.
The campaign urges parents and carers to turn straighteners 'Straight Off, and put them Straight Away'.
The wayward vehicle hit an electric post before falling straight off the cliff.
The graphics are remarkable and even as a newcomer, it's easy to pick up and run with straight off. Absolutely brilliant.
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