straight-from-the-shoulder

It was no good trying some tricky approach; his best bet was the straight-from-the-shoulder bit.

"Very well, sir," said Colin, a little taken aback by this straight-from-the-shoulder statement.

They were straight-from-the-shoulder remarks, or, as he called them, they were “brass tacks.”

It was all straight-from-the-shoulder kind of talk, garbed in homely phrase.

The Cubans and the officers of the company alike came in for a good deal of straight-from-the-shoulder Yankee criticism.