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Meanings of straight arrow in English

A frank and honest person.

Synonyms
Examples for "square shooter"
Examples for "square shooter"
1
But the important thing is to be a square shooter.
Gladiator
2
He's a square shooter, I tell you.
Triplanetary
3
He looks like pretty much of a man to me, and the sheriff says he's a square shooter from the word go.
The Rangeland Avenger
4
What made me think my soldiers were going to be square shooters?
The Neutronium Alchemist
5
"I dunno about Arizona, but Sinclair, they say, is a square shooter."
The Rangeland Avenger
1
I think he's a straight shooter, and he says what's on his mind.
Reuters
2
When she did not blink, I knew she was being a straight shooter.
Relentless
3
Leinster lock Hayden Triggs is a former Kiwi soldier and a straight shooter.
The Irish Times
4
She called me up right before, straight shooter, ya know?
For whom the minivan rolls: an aaron tucker mystery
5
Faulkland was a straight shooter, and Marcus figured it best to come straight out.
Stars rain down
Usage of straight arrow in English
1
Such a damn straight arrow, though, he just might do it.
In the Dark
2
Grown-up Andrew is kind, intelligent, and strictly straight arrow where his work is concerned.
Cross Bones
3
Time-bending plot The complex plot zooms in on the normally straight arrow of time.
The South African
4
Gordon is a straight arrow who doesn't like the chicanery.
The new yorker
5
Then Bhima took up another straight arrow of great impetuosity and sped it at Sushena.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 / Books 8,...
6
He never put himself forward as a straight arrow.
NY Magazine
7
By appealing to the part of him that is the Boy Scout, the straight arrow.
Fire With Fire
8
Since I've been where he's at in the booze terrain, he sounds straight arrow to me.
The bourne ultimatum
9
They gave me this straight arrow a while back and you couldn't do nothing with him.
Burglars can't be choosers
10
He was no straight arrow, this Santangelo.
The burglar who traded ted williams
11
Make really smart little straight arrow bitches?
Seveneves
12
Nolan, there's one last thing you might want to consider: a straight arrow like Riordan usually has a strong conscience.
Fire With Fire
13
Did she want to believe he was a straight arrow because he was charming and good-looking as well as infuriating?
Haunted
14
Mr. Davenport knew that Alan was a straight arrow, not someone he'd ever need to personally take an interest in.
Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town
15
Being such a straight arrow was part of the reason for this amazing fecundity, but Annie herself was a bigger one.
Misery
16
Then Susharma, O king, with a straight arrow, pierced Arjuna in the chest, and then he pierced him with three other shafts.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 / Books 8,...
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Straight arrow through the time
Straight arrow across language varieties
United States of America
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