straight talk

noun

Simple, honest speaking.

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Meanings

nounstraight talk (uncountable)
  1. uncountableSimple, honest speaking.

    "I asked for straight talk, and thou hast given me sweet talk."

    1891 August, Rudyard Kipling, chapter 20, in Life’s Handicap: Being Stories of Mine Own People, London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., […], published October 1891, →OCLC
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    "Tell him to go back to Durango and forget the foolish girl. […]" "All right. That is straight talk, like an Indian's.

    1917 January, Zane Grey, chapter II, in Wildfire, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers, →OCLC

    [H]e told voters in the economically ravaged state that lost auto-industry jobs "aren't coming back," a dose of undiluted straight talk that probably cemented his loss there.

    2008 January 23, James Carney, “The Resurrection of John McCain”, in Time

Translations

Finnish suora puhe
  • suora puhehonest speaking
German Klartext
  • Klartexthonest speaking
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