get straight

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get straight definition


and get right
  1. in.
    to take a dose of a drug to end drug craving. (Drugs.) : You'll never get straight if you keep smoking that stuff. , I need to get right before anything else.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Get straight is always a great word to know.
So is ninnyhammer. Does it mean:
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
American Heritage
Idioms & Phrases

get straight

Also, have straight. Understand correctly or make something clear, as in Now let's get it straightyou'll take over at four, or Do I have it straight about when you're leaving? This expression uses straight in the sense of "in proper order" or "not confused." [c. 1920]

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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