close to the bone

very personal or offensively honest He said he was only joking, but his comments were so close to the bone they weren't funny at all.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Dickens	['dikinz]
Esthiru	-	Old Church Slavic
Benigno	-	Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Alim	-	Arabic, Uyghur
ØYvind	-	Norwegian
Boone	[bu:n]