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straight from the shoulder

straight from the shoulder adjective: done in a direct manner; blunt.

Adjective

straight from the shoulder

  1. (idiomatic, often hyphenated) Done in a direct manner; blunt.
    • He delivered his blow straight from the shoulder, felt the jar right up his arm, and realised suddenly that he was striking something passive and unresisting.1896, Joseph Conrad, chapter IV, in An Outcast of the Islands, London: T. Fisher Unwin […], →OCLC, part IV, page 276
    • "Are yuh going to let the Pilgrim hang around here this summer?" he demanded in his straight-from-the-shoulder fashion.1908, B. M. Bower, chapter 19, in The Long Shadow

Adverb

straight from the shoulder

  1. (idiomatic) In a straightforward manner; directly; bluntly.
    • I'd jes' like to drop into the Eastry Arms, jes' when all those beggars in the parlour are sittin' down to whist, Ruck and Marbel and all, and give 'em ten minutes of my mind, George. Straight from the shoulder. Jes' exactly what I think of them.1908, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “(please specify |book 1 to 4)”, in Tono-Bungay […], Toronto, Ont.: The Macmillan Company of Canada, Ltd., →OCLC
    • He's an uncomplicated working-class kid who speaks, jab-like, straight from the shoulder.2005 November 20, Kevin Mitchell, “Listen to the dreams of fighters”, in The Guardian, UK, retrieved 11 Jun 2009

straight from the shoulder meaning in Bengali and Malayalam

straight from the shoulder in Bengali

সরাসরি ভাবে করা, স্পষ্টভাষী, সহজ সরল ভাবে, সরাসরি, স্পষ্টভাবে

straight from the shoulder in Malayalam

straight, directly, frankly
നേരിട്ടുള്ള, നേരായി, ഋജുവായി, ഒളിക്കാതെ, മറയില്ലാതെ, കപടമില്ലാതെ

Origin of straight from the shoulder

From a technique for delivering a strong punch.

Questions about straight from the shoulder

What does straight from the shoulder mean?
Straight from the shoulder means done in a direct manner; blunt.
What is straight from the shoulder in Bengali?
Straight from the shoulder in Bengali is সরাসরি ভাবে করা, স্পষ্টভাষী, সহজ সরল ভাবে. See Straight from the shoulder meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is straight from the shoulder?
Straight from the shoulder can be an adjective or an adverb.

Words near straight from the shoulder in the dictionary

  1. straight faces
  2. straight flush
  3. straight flushes
  4. straight forward
  5. straight from the horse's mouth
  6. straight from the shoulder
  7. straight goods
  8. straight hit
  9. straight hits
  10. straight jacket
  11. straight jackets

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: straight from the shoulder (page history and authors); straight from the shoulder (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); straight from the shoulder (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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