straight answer
collocation in Englishmeaningsofstraightandanswer
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straight
adjective
adverb
uk/streɪt/us/streɪt/
continuing in one direction without bending ...
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answer
noun[C]
uk/ˈɑːn.sər/us/ˈæn.sɚ/
a reaction to a question, letter, phone ...
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(Definition ofstraightandanswerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofstraight answer
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Most development economists will give you astraightanswerif you ask them whether economic growth can be relied upon to trickle down reasonably fast.
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I hope that we will be able to get astraightanswer.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
Activity-based budgeting provides astraightanswerto the question of what each activity actually costs.
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Researchers say that the question has been put the wrong way and that there is nostraightanswerto that.
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Occasionally, one does not put the right question and one may not receive an informative answer, but one expects astraightanswer.
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Perhaps he will now give astraightanswerto my question.
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We never got astraightanswerto that.
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Perhaps for once we can get astraightanswerto a straight question.
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He refused to give me astraightanswerto my question.
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Thestraightansweris that there will be a mixture.
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Why cannot we get astraightanswerto this question?
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Can we have astraightanswerto that question?
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I hardly dare hope that we get astraightanswerto a straight question.
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It is difficult to get astraightanswerto this question.
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Surely, it is not impossible for him to give astraightanswerto that question.
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Could he possibly give astraightanswernow to what was a straight question?
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I challenge him to give astraightanswerhere and now to this simple question—does he stand by these words or does he not?
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Could he give astraightanswerto that question?
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He could not even give me astraightanswer.
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One cannot get astraightanswerout of them.
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