straight talk
noun1
Simple, 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:
- "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:
1 more example
- [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:
- Derived terms
- straight talker
- Related terms
- play it straight, shoot someone straight, straight shooter, plain English