It was all straight-from-the-shoulder kind of talk, garbed in homely phrase.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin] Reference

It was no good trying some tricky approach; his best bet was the straight-from-the-shoulder bit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Greylorn] Reference

A straight-from-the-shoulder talker who'd rather tinker with his old souped-up car than go to a black-tie dinner.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mr. Right] Reference

Senator Platt's emissary, Lemuel Ely Quigg, in a two hours 'conversation in the tent at Montauk, asked some straight-from-the-shoulder questions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Theodore Roosevelt and His Times] Reference

Of course, I didn't have any love for any Yankees -- and haven't now, for that matter -- but I told my white folks straight-from-the-shoulder that I.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 1] Reference

Like a mouse one minute, and then this straight-from-the-shoulder business.    From Wordnik.com.  [Night Must Fall : a Play in Three Acts] Reference

So the citizens pushed the matter back to Kelly with this straight-from-the-shoulder message.    From Wordnik.com.  [Palestine Blogs aggregator] Reference

They were straight-from-the-shoulder remarks, or, as he called them, they were "brass tacks.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mutiny of the Elsinore] Reference

"Very well, sir," said Colin, a little taken aback by this straight-from-the-shoulder statement.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries] Reference

It has more or less the same concise, straight-from-the-shoulder British scruffiness that Greenhalgh's script for.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hollywood Elsewhere] Reference

They have better manners, perhaps, than we have, but they're sensible, straight-from-the-shoulder men of business.    From Wordnik.com.  [The White Mice] Reference

It took a while but the persona which brings me new business is earnest, highly educated but straight-from-the-shoulder Jersey City.    From Wordnik.com.  [Law And More] Reference

This was extraordinarily straight-from-the-shoulder thinking but all the way out to the scene of the festivities she pondered quietly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alcatraz] Reference

Jane's voice was the earnest, genuine, straight-from-the-shoulder voice that had always so impressed teachers and convinced them of her sterling worth.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Criminal C.O.D]

Lombardi was another one of those straight-from-the-shoulder guys, sure of himself and his vast talents, who taught fine football players to be even finer.    From Wordnik.com.  [NY Daily News] Reference

Within the few hours he had come to like the old professor, for Longstreet, though academic, was a straight-from-the-shoulder type of man, one of no subterfuges.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Desert Valley] Reference

Well, the T2 folks recently issued a follow-up to that prescient analysis, again festooned with nifty graphics and graced with straight-from-the-shoulder narration.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

When the straight-from-the-shoulder American takes time to finish his thought, to mold his sentences, to brain his reader with a perfect expression of his tense emotion, then he makes literature.    From Wordnik.com.  [Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism] Reference

They heard of him as floating about the Northwest and full of hot talk, but no one could put his hand upon him, and they were puzzled, because they had expected decisive, straight-from-the-shoulder action from the "King.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Candidate A Political Romance] Reference

Firm, straight-from-the-shoulder tone.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fashion in Shrouds]

Whitlock straight-from-the-shoulder point and brevity to it.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Claws of the German Eagle] Reference