straight up

There are scenes that spotlight our leads by fading the rest of the restaurant into the dark, and a dazzler where everything but Violet vanishes into inky blackness as the camera shoots straight up like a spooked squid.

“That’s how they greet,” Ebsen told me a few weeks before, “their whiskers send signals straight up to their brain which tells them all about your smell, your hormones, everything.”

President Trump’s Treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, walked into that buzzsaw Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” when he declared, “Corrections are healthy. They’re normal. ������’s not healthy is straight up, that you get these euphoric markets. That’s how you get a financial crisis.”

Chloe straight up told them what happened.

Witkoff, who met Putin ten days ago, said the Russian president had been "gracious" and "straight up" with him.