speak one's mind

present singular third person speaks one's mind · participle present speaking one's mind · past spoke one's mind · participle past spoken one's mind

1. idiomaticTo state one's thoughts or opinions honestly or frankly.

   [H]e would speak his mind, and lecture her all the same as if she were a little girl.

   1847 December, Ellis Bell [pseudonym; Emily Brontë], Wuthering Heights: […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Thomas Cautley Newby, […], →OCLC

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   It was seldom that Mrs. Ladybug hesitated to speak her mind right out to a person if she happened to disapprove of him.

   1921, Arthur Scott Bailey, chapter 13, in The Tale of Mrs. Ladybug

   Rudy Giuliani[…]spoke his mind and did not suffer fools even a tiny bit—but then, creative incivility is part of the job description for a successful mayor of New York.

   2007 April 12, Joe Klein, “President Fuhgeddaboutit”, in Time, archived from the original on 26 Jan 2012

   Synonyms: speak one's conscience