set/put the record straight

idiom

: to provide the facts about something that people have a false understanding or idea about
Let me set the record straight about what really happened last week.

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Fortunately, a high-level civil servant has blown the whistle and set the record straight. — Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Mar. 2025 This show should finally set the record straight: here is an American visionary whose obsessive paintings are at once stylized and crudely instinctive, achieving a kind of cryptic simplicity that might be called folk surrealism. — Jeremy Lybarger, ARTnews.com, 26 Mar. 2025 Airdate: Wednesday, March 19 (Hulu) Cast: Ellen Pompeo, Mark Duplass, Imogen Faith Reid, Dulé Hill, Sarayu Blue, Christina Hendricks, Kim Shaw Creator: Katie Robbins In its defense, the intent to set the record straight on a narrative plagued by misinformation is a noble one. — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Mar. 2025 The cute interaction between Dimoldenberg and Barbaro comes after the Chicken Shop Date host set the record straight on her relationship with Garfield after years of flirty banter. — Athena Sobhan, People.com, 3 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for set/put the record straight

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