go straight—(coll.)
1. act honestly; desist from criminal activities:
- Patrick lives with Kate and has promised to go straight after years of being a hardman in London’s underworld.
2. conform to social conventions, especially to give up drugs or cease homosexual practices:
- Implication is that if some gays can go straight, any gay can go straight.
Note: The expression is not antonymous in meaning to the phrase go around the bend—(coll.) go crazy or behave as if mad (also: go round the bend):
- He went around the bend when he heard his daughter was planning to marry John.
go straight to the point—(also: come straight to the point) give the essential part of what one is trying to say, ignoring what is irrelevant:
- “What’s this nonsense about a studio, Sadie?” I said, going straight to the point.