Dead-on and Straight

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Dead-on adjective - Being in agreement with the truth or a fact or a standard.

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Straight and dead-on are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Straight" instead the phrase "Dead-on" as an adverb or an adjective.

Straight adjective - Free from irregularities or digressions in course.

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Dead-on and straight are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Dead-on" instead an adjective "Straight".

Beatallica (a satirical band performing mashups of The Beatles and Metallica) already has a singer who does a dead-on James Hetfield... and they fall straight on this in "And I'm Evil", featuring a Glenn Danzig soundalike.

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The BBC TV show Look Around You, a parody of science education programs from the late 1970s and early '80s, is a dead-on imitation, presented completely straight.

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The "Investigative News Programme" This is David Lander featured Stephen Fry doing a dead-on straight faced parody of Roger Cook, a real investigator, only his stories were parodies.

Source: Stealth Parody

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