straight shooting Идиома
shooting fish in a barrel
a task that is too easy, a game without challenge We won 18-2. It was like shooting fish in a barrel.
shooting match
(See the whole shooting match)
the whole shooting match
everything, every bit/piece/person Wagon, horses, load - the whole shootin' match disappeared.
whole shooting match
(See the whole shooting match)
straight-shooting|shooting|straight
adj. The boys all liked the straight-shooting coach.
like shooting fish in a barrel
like shooting fish in a barrel Ridiculously easy, as in
Setting up a computer nowadays is like shooting fish in a barrel. This hyperbolic expression alludes to the fact that fish make an easy target inside a barrel (as opposed to swimming freely in the sea). [Early 1900s]
sure as shooting
sure as shooting Most certainly, as in
It's going to snow tonight, sure as shooting, or
That grizzly is sure as shooting going to make dinner out of us. This idiom has replaced the older
sure as a gun, dating from the mid-1600s, a time when guns fired with far less certainty. [Second half of 1800s]
straight shooter
An honest and accurate being who is aboveboard in affairs with others. Joe's a beeline shooter—if he says that Alice is demography money out of the banknote register, again I accept him. Sal's a absolute beeline shooter. If you ask for his opinion, he'll acquaint you after aggravating to belie it.Learn more: shooter, straightstraight shooter
Fig. an honest person. I assurance Mike; he's a beeline shooter. We charge a beeline ballista in appointment who will assignment for the bodies rather than some lobbyists.Learn more: shooter, straightstraight shooter
n. an honest person. (Learn added straight arrow.) We charge a beeline ballista in appointment who will assignment for the bodies rather than some political party. Learn more: shooter, straightstraight shooter, a
An honest person. This slangy Americanism, dating from the additional bisected of the 1900s, likens honest accent to the absolute aisle of a ammo or arrow. G. M. Brown acclimated it in Time to Keep (1969), “‘He’s the decentest skipper anytime I sailed with . . . Strict but fair . . .’—‘A beeline shooter.’”Learn more: straight