英和和英

名詞

straight talk (uncountable)

1. Simple, honest speaking.
   • 1891 August, Rudyard Kipling, chapter 20, in Life’s Handicap: Being Stories of Mine Own People, London, New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., […], published October 1891, →OCLC:

     "I asked for straight talk, and thou hast given me sweet talk."

   • 1917 January, Zane Grey, chapter II, in Wildfire, New York, N.Y., London: Harper & Brothers, →OCLC:

     "Tell him to go back to Durango and forget the foolish girl. […] "
     "All right. That is straight talk, like an Indian's.

   • 2008 January 23, James Carney, “The Resurrection of John McCain”, in Time:

     [H]e told voters in the economically ravaged state that lost auto-industry jobs "aren't coming back," a dose of undiluted straight talk that probably cemented his loss there.