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    Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++ˌstraight ˈarrow noun [countable]  American English informalHONEST someone who is very honest and moral and who never does anything exciting or unusual 循规蹈矩的人，安分守己的人
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    straight arrow• Her eyesight, of course, was 20/20 straight arrow.• He was no straight arrow, this Santangelo.• Hoover was certainly, Summers shows, spectacularly indifferent to those straight arrow standards he set for his agents.
    ˌstraight ˈarrow nounChineseSyllable
    who someone who is very honest and moral never and Corpus


    straight arrow
    ˌstraight ˈarrow noun [countable]
    American English informal someone who is very honest and moral and who never does anything exciting or unusual


    straight arrowBrE /ˌstreɪt ˈærəʊ/ 🔊NAmE /ˌstreɪt ˈæroʊ/ 🔊 noun (NAmE, informal) a person who is very honest or who never does anything exciting or different 老实巴交的人；循规蹈矩的人