speak one's mind
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speak one's mind (third-person singular simple present speaks one's mind, present participle speaking one's mind, simple past spoke one's mind, past participle spoken one's mind)
- (idiomatic) To state one's thoughts or opinions honestly or frankly.
- Synonym: speak one's conscience
- 1847 December, Ellis Bell [pseudonym; Emily Brontë], Wuthering Heights: […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Thomas Cautley Newby, […], →OCLC:
- [H]e would speak his mind, and lecture her all the same as if she were a little girl.
- 1921, Arthur Scott Bailey, chapter 13, in The Tale of Mrs. Ladybug:
- It was seldom that Mrs. Ladybug hesitated to speak her mind right out to a person if she happened to disapprove of him.
- 2007 April 12, Joe Klein, “President Fuhgeddaboutit”, in Time[1], archived from the original on 26 January 2012:
- Rudy Giuliani […] spoke his mind and did not suffer fools even a tiny bit—but then, creative incivility is part of the job description for a successful mayor of New York.
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to state one's thoughts honestly or frankly
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