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.
| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
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