"go straight" meaning in English

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        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "going straight",
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        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "went straight",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gone straight",
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        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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          "ref": "1921, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter 3, in The Efficiency Expert",
          "text": "\"Oh,\" said Jimmy, \"if I ever want any one to break into a safe, come to you, huh?\"\n\"You get me,\" replied the other. . . .\n\"I should think,\" said Jimmy, \"that a man of your ability could earn a living by less precarious methods.\" \"You would think so,\" replied the Lizard. \"I've tried two or three times to go straight. Wore out my shoes looking for a job.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1951 September 24, “Mexico: Toward the Perfect State”, in Time",
          "text": "[H]e got a law passed threatening them with jail if they did not go straight in the future.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1989, John Grisham, A Time to Kill, reprint edition, page 12",
          "text": "He's proved very reliable since he was paroled. He's a good kid tryin' to go straight, for the most part.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1995 July 2, John Tierney, “The Big City: Cheats Like Us”, in New York Times, retrieved 2012-09-13",
          "text": "\"I can't take no more time in jail,\" he said. \"I'm going straight.\"",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To discontinue engaging in criminal acts; to become a law-abiding person."
      ],
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          "criminal",
          "criminal"
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          "law-abiding",
          "law-abiding"
        ]
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To discontinue engaging in criminal acts; to become a law-abiding person."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "play it straight"
        }
      ],
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        "idiomatic"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to discontinue engaging in criminal acts",
          "word": "sauber bleiben"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to discontinue engaging in criminal acts",
          "word": "keine krummen Sachen mehr machen"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to discontinue engaging in criminal acts",
          "word": "sich gesetzestreu verhalten"
        }
      ]
    }
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  "word": "go straight"
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        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "going straight",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
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    },
    {
      "form": "went straight",
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        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gone straight",
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        "participle",
        "past"
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          "ref": "1921, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter 3, in The Efficiency Expert",
          "text": "\"Oh,\" said Jimmy, \"if I ever want any one to break into a safe, come to you, huh?\"\n\"You get me,\" replied the other. . . .\n\"I should think,\" said Jimmy, \"that a man of your ability could earn a living by less precarious methods.\" \"You would think so,\" replied the Lizard. \"I've tried two or three times to go straight. Wore out my shoes looking for a job.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1951 September 24, “Mexico: Toward the Perfect State”, in Time",
          "text": "[H]e got a law passed threatening them with jail if they did not go straight in the future.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1989, John Grisham, A Time to Kill, reprint edition, page 12",
          "text": "He's proved very reliable since he was paroled. He's a good kid tryin' to go straight, for the most part.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1995 July 2, John Tierney, “The Big City: Cheats Like Us”, in New York Times, retrieved 2012-09-13",
          "text": "\"I can't take no more time in jail,\" he said. \"I'm going straight.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "To discontinue engaging in criminal acts; to become a law-abiding person."
      ],
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          "criminal",
          "criminal"
        ],
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          "law-abiding",
          "law-abiding"
        ]
      ],
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        "(idiomatic) To discontinue engaging in criminal acts; to become a law-abiding person."
      ],
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "play it straight"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to discontinue engaging in criminal acts",
      "word": "sauber bleiben"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to discontinue engaging in criminal acts",
      "word": "keine krummen Sachen mehr machen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to discontinue engaging in criminal acts",
      "word": "sich gesetzestreu verhalten"
    }
  ],
  "word": "go straight"
}