right out

right out
or[straight out] {adv.} Plainly; in a way that hides nothing; without waiting or keeping back anything. * /When Mother asked who broke the window, Jimmie told her right out that he did it./ * /When Ann entered the beauty contest her little brother told her straight out that she was crazy./

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