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straight arrow

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n. Informal
  1. A morally upright person.
  2. A person regarded as being extremely conventional.

[From the phrase straight as an arrow.]

straight-arrow straight'-ar'row (strāt'ăr'ō) adj.

Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang:

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noun
noun, N Amer

An honest or genuine person. (1969 —) .
C. Mcfadden I keep trying to tell you, I'm really a straight arrow (1977).



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