Idiom
get straight
Meaning
Synonym of clarify: to make clear, to reach an understanding.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“Let me get this straight, you are moving away?”
“We need to get our facts straight before we present this report to the manager.”
“The lawyer asked the witness to repeat the story so he could get the timeline straight before the trial began.”
Examples
simple
“Let me get this straight, you are moving away?”
contextual
“We need to get our facts straight before we present this report to the manager.”
complex
“The lawyer asked the witness to repeat the story so he could get the timeline straight before the trial began.”
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