right\ out

right\ out
• right out
• straight out
adv
Plainly; in a way that hides nothing; without waiting or keeping back anything.

When Mother asked who broke the window, Jimmie told her right out that he did it.

When Ann entered the beauty contest her little brother told her straight out that she was crazy.


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