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STRAIGHT UP
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(of an alcoholic drink) stirred or shaken with ice, but served without it
Example:
I like my martinis straight up
Classified under:
Similar:
pure (free of extraneous elements of any kind)
Domain usage:
colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)
Context examples:
I approached it; it was a road or a track: it led straight up to the light, which now beamed from a sort of knoll, amidst a clump of trees—firs, apparently, from what I could distinguish of the character of their forms and foliage through the gloom.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
This, of course, took the trail straight up to me.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Hans was restless, and Edith felt uncomfortable. Dennin lay on his back, staring straight up at the moss- chinked roof.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
The children were inconsolable, and Mr. Bhaer's hair stuck straight up all over his head, for he always rumpled it wildly when disturbed in mind.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
“Lead me straight up to him, and when I'm in view, cry out, 'Here's a friend for you, Bill.' If you don't, I'll do this,” and with that he gave me a twitch that I thought would have made me faint.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
The weapon he held straight up in front of him with blade erect, so that he might either bring it down with a swinging blow, or by a turn of the heavy blade he might guard his own head and body.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The muscles of his whole body contracted spasmodically and instinctively, the hair on his neck and shoulders stood on end, and with a ferocious snarl he bounded straight up into the blinding day, the snow flying about him in a flashing cloud.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
High in the air, and straight up, soared the shape of white, now a struggling snowshoe rabbit that leaped and bounded, executing a fantastic dance there above him in the air and never once returning to earth.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
A tall, broad-shouldered young fellow, with a cropped head, a felt basin of a hat, and a flyaway coat, came tramping down the road at a great pace, walked over the low fence without stopping to open the gate, straight up to Mrs. March, with both hands out and a hearty...
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
He made it clear to Buck that he was to come, and they ran side by side through the sombre twilight, straight up the creek bed, into the gorge from which it issued, and across the bleak divide where it took its rise.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
