straight off
8
3.0
- idiom
- /streɪt ɔf/
:
de inmediato
- I've now got to rush straight off to the gym.
- tell you straight off
- come straight off
- knew straight off
And as soon as Caleb finished football, he went straight off to his dance rehearsals.
- And as soon as Caleb finished football, he went straight off to his dance rehearsals.
- Yeah, straight off the bat, I'm gonna just go for some Keemstar cringe.
- And it's not like if you tell me something, I have an obligation to believe it straight off.
- I just kept walking and walked straight off.
- When he said sixty months, I just thought, you fucking prick, straight off.
Examples
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Most of the equipment—the engines and the computers and so forth—could be bought straight off the shelf nowadays.
Fiction book (1996) -
Let me tell you straight off.
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Could you tell me, please, why would you waste my time instead of starting straight off with this?
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Of course, the trouble with Charles starts straight off.
Fiction book (1996) -
Well, I recognized her straight off.
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How can the witness answer straight off when the counsel keeps interrupting?
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But, you know, I've just come from Washington, and I must tell you straight off, you've done an absolutely top-notch job on the general's press.
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She called me straight off to discuss the urgent matter.
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He answered my questions straight off without any hesitation.
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Upon entering the room, I knew straight off that something was wrong.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
At this exact moment or right away
∞
1.0
At once without waiting
960
1.0
Without any delay
344
1.0
Immediately without delay
330
1.0
Right away without any delay
163
1.0
Do something at once without delay
121
2.8
Immediately at the exact place where something happens, often needing a quick response
56
6.5
Right away without waiting
50
3.2
Right away without any hesitation
35
4.2
Completely, with nothing left to pay
27
3.7
Very quickly and without delay
15
7.3
Without any delay, right away
13
3.5
Very quickly without delay
13
4.2
Immediately and without delay
11
7.3
In a quick and efficient way
7
3.2
Without delay after something happens
6
2.4
To act quickly without delay
4
6.0
Very quickly and without hesitation
3
5.5
To act immediately and confidently without pausing
Immediately without any delay
Antonyms
How Quickly
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'immediately' is directly derivable from combining 'straight' (directly) with 'off' (away/away from a point in time), producing the sense of doing something without delay. This is a regular adverbial composition (cf. 'straightaway') and is cross-linguistically transparent, so a B1 learner who knows the parts would readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Straight off may come from the simple image of moving straight and then immediately off something, like stepping straight off a bus without stopping. That's why it means 'immediately', with no delay.