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
Boleslav	-	Czech, Russian, Medieval Slavic
Jan (2)	JAN	English
Mike	[maik]
Ari (3)	-	Armenian
Sawyer	SOI-ər, SAW-yər	English (Modern)
Giselbert	-	Ancient Germanic