not pull any/your punches
to speak in an honest way without trying to be kind:
Her image is that of an investigative reporter who doesn't pull any punches.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Blunt and direct in speech & behaviour
- abrupt
- baldly
- blunt
- bluntly
- brusque
- brutal
- forward
- frank
- in a word idiom
- in the raw idiom
- man-to-man
- mince
- not mince (your) words idiom
- raw
- shoot from the hip idiom
- straight
- term
- terse
- unvarnished
- woman-to-woman
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