A man speaks frantically into the phone, "My wife is pregnant, and her contractions are only two minutes apart!"
"Is this her first child?" the doctor queries.
"No, you idiot!" the man shouts. "This is her husband!"
- (of theatre, music, etc.) Serious, classical, not popular or comic.
- a unmodified. B (of a drink) undiluted.
- colloq. A (of a person etc.) Conventional, respectable. B heterosexual.
- direct, undeviating. —n. - straight part, esp. The concluding stretch of a racetrack.
- straight condition.
- sequence of five cards in poker.
- colloq. Conventional person; heterosexual. —adv. - in a straight line; direct.
- in the right direction.
- correctly. go straight (of a criminal) become honest. Straight away immediately. Straight off colloq. Without hesitation. straightish adj. Straightness n. [originally a past part. Of *stretch]
STRAINED
adj. - constrained, artificial.
- (of a relationship) mutually distrustful or tense.
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