unvarnished truth

The plain facts without embellishment, as in Let's just have the unvarnished truth about the sale. This idiom was first recorded in 1883, although unvarnished had been used to describe a direct statement since Shakespeare's time.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Friedrich	FREED-rikh	German
Meshullam	-	Biblical, Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew
Eveleen	EV-ə-leen	English (Rare)
Nona (1)	-	Roman Mythology
Dragutin	-	Serbian, Croatian, Slovene, Medieval Slavic
Cumhur	-	Turkish