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
August	OW-guwst (German, Polish), AW-gəst (English)	German, Polish, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Catalan, English
Giuseppe	joo-ZEP-pe	Italian
RÚNi	-	Ancient Scandinavian
Sigifrid	-	Ancient Germanic
Hidayat	-	Arabic, Indonesian
Thales	-	Ancient Greek