Straight-from-the-shoulder | Word Straight-from-the-shoulder at Open Dictionary of English by LearnThat Foundation

It was all straight-from-the-shoulder kind of talk, garbed in homely phrase.
It was no good trying some tricky approach; his best bet was the straight-from-the-shoulder bit.
A straight-from-the-shoulder talker who'd rather tinker with his old souped-up car than go to a black-tie dinner.
Senator Platt's emissary, Lemuel Ely Quigg, in a two hours 'conversation in the tent at Montauk, asked some straight-from-the-shoulder questions.

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