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Definition of Straight arrow
1. Noun. A frank and honest person.
Definition of Straight arrow
1. Noun. (idiomatic) A person of conventional morality ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Straight Arrow
Literary usage of Straight arrow
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Red Cloud, the Solitary Sioux: A Story of the Great Prairie by William Francis Butler (1882)
"... draws a straight arrow— The trader's flight-*-Our losses and gains—Winter
supplies— Our party is completed—"All's well that ends well. ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia of Sport by Frederick George Aflalo, Hedley Peek (1897)
"The straight arrow is the steadiest and stiffest, but it is not quite so fast
... The straight arrow is the one recommended, but care must be taken that it ..."
3. Key to Wentworth & Hill's Text-book of Physics by George Albert Wentworth, George Anthony Hill (1898)
"Construct by points the real image of a straight arrow formed by a convex lens.
Draw an arrow, on a long sheet of paper, near one end. ..."
4. Elements of Physics by Charles Hanford Henderson, John Francis Woodhull (1900)
"This permits the ether whirl to move with the ether flow. If the current flows
from right to left, as represented by the large straight arrow ..."
5. Elements of Physics by Charles Hanford Henderson, John Francis Woodhull (1901)
"Suppose the current to be flowing from left to right, as represented by the large
straight arrow in the upper diagram, and the needle to be brought over it, ..."
6. Aerial Navigation by Charles Blachford Mansfield (1877)
"103104, 105, B represents the centre of buoyancy of the gas-vessel ; the straight
arrow marked p shows the line of action of the propellers ; and the ..."
7. The Horseless Age (1902)
"That is something over 185 pounds applied one foot from the pivot, as indicated
by the straight arrow and acting to turn the wheels as indicated by the ..."
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