in so many words
directly, or in a way that makes it very clear what you mean:
"Did he say he was unhappy with Anna?" "Well, not in so many words, but that was certainly the impression I got."
I told her, in so many words, to stop interfering.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Accurate and exact
- accuracy
- accurate
- aright
- authoritative
- bang
- be bang on idiom
- exact
- exactly
- flat
- infallible
- infallibly
- letter-perfect
- literal
- many
- technically
- to the day idiom
- to the letter idiom
- truly
- unerring
- verbatim
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