straight-from-the-shoulder
- s characterized by directness in manner or speech; without subtlety or evasion
- Nixon went out of his way for straight-from-the-shoulder talk in Uruguay.
- The Indian emissaries got plenty of straight-from-the-shoulder advice in Washington and New York.
- Kinmond asked straight-from-the-shoulder questions and often got surprisingly frank replies from English-speaking guides and government officials.