schnurstracks
German
editEtymology
editSchnur (“cord, line”) + stracks (“directly”)
Pronunciation
editAdverb
editschnurstracks
- (colloquial) straightway, straight, directly (going somewhere immediately and by the shortest way possible)
- Synonym: geradewegs
Synonyms
edit- While the dated simplex stracks is synonymous with sofort and thus chiefly temporal, schnurstracks also has a strongly spatial dimension.
Related terms
editFurther reading
edit- “schnurstracks” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “schnurstracks” in Duden online
- “schnurstracks” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon