schnurstracks

== German == === Etymology === Schnur (“cord, line”) +‎ stracks (“directly”) === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ʃnuːɐ̯ˈʃtʁaks/ Hyphenation: schnur‧stracks === Adverb === schnurstracks (colloquial) straightway, straight, directly (going somewhere immediately and by the shortest way possible) Synonym: geradewegs ==== Synonyms ==== While the dated simplex stracks is synonymous with sofort and thus chiefly temporal, schnurstracks also has a strongly spatial dimension. ==== Related terms ==== schnurgerade strack === Further reading === “schnurstracks”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[1] (in German) “schnurstracks” in Duden online “schnurstracks” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon