straight-from-the-shoulder

• “They were straight-from-the-shoulder remarks, or, as he called them, they were "brass tacks.”

  CHAPTER XXXIX

• “Ellis Ave., Chicago ($45-$65), 773-753-4472 extended through July 3 Nowadays most people think of "Porgy and Bess" as an opera, but it began life on Broadway, and there's a strong case to be made for performing the American "Carmen" (which is what "Porgy" is) not as a big-house opera but as a straight-from-the-shoulder music drama (which is what "Carmen" is).”

  The Wall Street Journal: The Church on Catfish Row

• “Olbermann has in the past come out with some astonishing, straight-from-the-shoulder critiques of, first, the Bush administration and more recently the actions of the Obama administration.”

  2009 October 09 « INTERSTELLAR TACTICS

• “A straight-from-the-shoulder talker who'd rather tinker with his old souped-up car than go to a black-tie dinner.”

  Mr. Right

• “It was no good trying some tricky approach; his best bet was the straight-from-the-shoulder bit.”

  Greylorn

• “For humorous poetry abounds among all southern war-collections; some of it polished and keen in its satire; most of it striking hard and "straight-from-the-shoulder" blows at some detected error, or some crying abuse.”

  Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death

• “The message was a straight-from-the-shoulder presentation of the life of Jesus Christ and the claims of God upon the lives of all men.”

  The Fight for the Argonne Personal Experiences of a 'Y' Man

• “It was all straight-from-the-shoulder kind of talk, garbed in homely phrase.”

  The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin

• “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”

  Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 1

• “Senator Platt's emissary, Lemuel Ely Quigg, in a two hours 'conversation in the tent at Montauk, asked some straight-from-the-shoulder questions.”

  Theodore Roosevelt and His Times

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