phrasal verb · informal
set someone straight
UK/sɛt ˈsʌmwʌn ˈstreɪt/US/sɛt ˈsʌmwən ˈstreɪt/SET someone STRAIGHT
to correct someone's mistaken belief or to give someone the true facts
Examples
“I had to set him straight about the date of the exam.”
“Let me set you straight: the meeting is on Friday, not Thursday.”
“Her teacher set her straight on the grammar points she had misunderstood.”
Band 8 sentence
“During the seminar the lecturer patiently set several students straight about common misconceptions in statistical inference.”
Collocations
- set someone straight about/on + noun
- let me set you straight
Word family
Common mistakes
make someone straight→set someone straight
set someone correct→set someone straight / correct someone
Say it for a higher band
5correct→6put someone right→7+set someone straight
Synonyms
correct
put someone right
Easily confused
correct
“The editor corrected several factual errors.”
set right
“They set right the faulty wiring.”
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