If a criminal is going straight, they are no longer involved in crime.
Synonyms: reform, turn over a new leaf, make a new start, get back on the straight and narrow More Synonyms of go straight
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go straight in British English
informal
to reform after having been dishonest or a criminal
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Examples of 'go straight' in a sentence
go straight
Worried patients are bound to go straight to casualty.
The Sun (2017)
They are actually shedding off in the wash and going straight out to sea.
Smithsonian Mag (2017)
Some are going straight to hospital instead.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
And the highlighting palette is going straight into my kit!
The Sun (2017)
That was a tragedy because if that had gone off, the helicopter would have gone straight to me.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
But if it goes straight to the man, then it's a winner.
The Sun (2016)
This song will go straight to the top of the charts.
The Sun (2008)
Do not be tempted to go straight for the burn.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
All the disappointment went straight away.
The Sun (2008)
You'd carry on doing what you were doing and go straight to work after that.
The Sun (2012)
He will often finish after 7pm and go straight to a business dinner with staff.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
This product has gone straight into my make-up bag.
The Sun (2013)
The westerly branch will go straight to Manchester.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
In fact, all disputes will go straight to his office.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Friends urged him to go straight to Bali and wait there for his wife and young son.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
I slipped and felt it go straight away.
The Sun (2014)
I needed to get going straight away.
The Sun (2008)
I had to sit quietly in my hotel room during the day and go straight to bed after the show.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
I went away to college and got involved in a conservative evangelical college group then went straight to seminary after graduation.
Christianity Today (2000)
Gang culture is all pervasive, and members wishing to go straight after their release are liable to be hunted down and killed.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
I felt it go straight away, a crunch.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
A veteran car crook told industry chiefs he had been forced to go straight after 15 years.
The Sun (2006)
I went straight home after the game and there wasn't much fun in my house last weekend.
The Sun (2006)
They offer trainees the chance to earn while they learn and more than 90 per cent of apprentices go straight into employment after the course.
The Sun (2010)
It is the same for any responsible business What reassurance can you give that you will not be going straight into redundancies after the consultation?
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
She said: 'We went straight to the bedroom.
The Sun (2014)
Uruguay and Germany would have wanted to go straight home after their semi-final defeats.
The Sun (2010)
I felt it go straight away when I dived.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
We still managed to go straight back up the other end and have one more shot with a massive driving lineout effort, but it wasn't to be.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
(idiom)
Definition
to reform after having been a criminal
I thought you were going straight after that last robbery?
Synonyms
reform
Under such a system where is the incentive to reform?
turn over a new leaf
She realized she was in the wrong and promised to turn over a new leaf.
make a new start
get back on the straight and narrow
See straight
Additional synonyms
in the sense of turn over a new leaf
Definition
to begin a new and improved course of behaviour
She realized she was in the wrong and promised to turn over a new leaf.