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
Idoya	ee-DHOI-ah	Spanish
Rahul	-	Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Assamese, Odia, Gujarati, Punjabi, Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada, Telug
Annetta	ahn-NET-tah	Italian
Baillie	['beili]
ÉTaÍN	AY-teen	Irish Mythology
Frane	-	Croatian