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make no bones about it

VERB
talk turkey
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They are unabashedly putting everything your mouth loves into one hot lump — and they make no bones about it.

From New York Times Apr. 7, 2017

I have never had any maternal instincts and make no bones about it.

From Slate Feb. 22, 2016

But make no bones about it, so far this has been a bizarre American century.

From Salon Nov. 1, 2015

Femi Odenekan, defending, told magistrates: "It was offensive, I make no bones about it, the defendant accepts that."

From BBC Aug. 22, 2012

Pooh! pooh! we would take it and make no bones about it, and Mrs. Bluebeard did likewise.

From Stories of Comedy by Johnson, Rossiter




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