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play it straight
idiom
to do something seriously, without making jokes or demanding too much attention :
It would be easy enough to make fun of much of this, but Barber wisely plays it straight.
to do something honestly:
I hope for your sake you're playing it straight.
Play it straight, act with honesty and integrity, and you'll be rewarded.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
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a laugh a minuteidiom
be no laughing matteridiom
beyond
beyond a jokeidiom
earnestly
earnestness
humourlessly
intense
lightly
saturnine
sober
soberly
solemnity
sombreness
starchy
straight-facedly
turgid
turgidity
turgidly
ultra-serious
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