tell it like it is

Verb

Meaning

tell it like it is (third-person singular simple present tells it like it is, present participle telling it like it is, simple past and past participle told it like it is)

(idiomatic) To speak frankly, to convey all and only the truth of a situation.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Antonyms

fib bluff lie trick hoax deceive
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Examples

Jimi was a good guy 'til he got into drugs. That's the way it is. I just tell it like it is. Dick Dale

I tell it like it is. I tell it like I see it. I tell it like I envision it. I tell it like I live it. Trick Daddy

I think the idea is now for blacks to write about the history of our music. It's time for that, because whites have been doing it all the time. It's time for us to do it ourselves and tell it like it is. Dizzy Gillespie

I'm just a real person and I tell it like it is. I don't have a lot of secrets, which has been a fault of mine. NeNe Leakes

You only talk about moving forward with the same bad ideas that got us into this mess. Even when the only sensible thing to do is pull the emergency brake. You are not mature enough to tell it like it is. Even that burden you leave to your children. Greta Thunberg

I am tough, and sometimes I tell it like it is. Tough love can work wonders. Bikram Choudhury

Close letter words and terms

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