joking aside vs straight up

joking aside

straight up

adv
  • To the utmost degree; really. 

  • Chilled (stirred or shaken over ice) and served in a cocktail glass, with no ice. 

  • Unambiguously; bluntly; plainly and directly. 

  • Truthfully; honestly. 

How often have the words joking aside and straight up occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )