make no bones about it

Cultural  

1. To be blunt and candid about something: “The teacher made no bones about the rigorous requirements for the seminar.”

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make no bones about it

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

Then I knew it was Jimmy, for Jimmy always used to say 'don't make no bones about it.'

From Mountain Meditations and some subjects of the day and the war by Lind-af-Hageby, L. (Lizzy)