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straight off

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straight off
adv.
At once; immediately: discovered straight off that the furnace wasn't working.

straight off
adv
Informal without deliberation or hesitation tell me the answer straight off
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Adv.1.straight off - without delay or hesitation; with no time intervening; "he answered immediately"; "found an answer straightaway"; "an official accused of dishonesty should be suspended forthwith"; "Come here now!"


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Then the Reverend Hobson opened up, slow and solemn, and begun to talk; and straight off the most outrageous row busted out in the cellar a body ever heard; it was only one dog, but he made a most powerful racket, and he kept it up right along; the parson he had to stand there, over the coffin, and wait -- you couldn't hear yourself think.
he remarked when he had read over the proclamation which he had dictated straight off without corrections.
But the partic'larest thing of all is, as nobody took any notice on it but me, and they answered straight off "yes", like as if it had been me saying "Amen" i' the right place, without listening to what went before.
 
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