mince words

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mince words (第三人称单数简单现在时 minces words，现在分词 mincing words，一般过去时及过去分词 minced words)

1. (俗语，主否定) 说话（不）留情
   • 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, 章号 20, 出自 Vanity Fair. A Novel without a Hero, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], 出版于 1848, →OCLC:

     "I ask you, William, could I suppose that the Emperor of Austria was a damned traitor—a traitor, and nothing more? I don’t mince words—a double-faced infernal traitor and schemer."

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   • 1920, Upton Sinclair, 100%: The Story of a Patriot, ch. 2:

     The detective did not mince words. "It's plain that you're a boob," he said.

   • 1962 August, “Let's have plain speaking”, 出自 Modern Railways，第 73 页:

     We remember, too, those admirable reports issued to every passenger during the final stages of the Kent Coast electrification, which did not mince words about the disruption of normal working, but which often turned the situations into an instructive illustration of the complexity of modern railway working.

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   • 1983, James C. H. Shen, “Rejoining the Government”, 出自 Robert Myers 编, The U.S. & Free China: How the U.S. Sold Out Its Ally‎^[1], Washington, D.C.: Acropolis Books Ltd., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC，第 28 页:

     They all sought the President's views on the world situation in general and the Asian situation in particular. Without mincing words he would comment on his favorite theme, namely, the insidious scheme of the international Communists to conquer the free world.

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   • 2022年7月27日, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Bridge disasters that spanned an Empire”, 出自 RAIL, 第 962 期，第 58 页:

     The coroner did not mince words, in charging the jury with their duty: "The bridge had been utterly neglected from the time that it was built and there had been no proper inspection of it... [...]."

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   • 有关使用本词的更多用例，请参阅Citations:mince words。

用法说明

• 通常用否定，即“直截了当”，“不拐弯抹角”，“心直口快”。

相关词汇

• minced oath

参见

• weigh one's words

参考资料

• "mince / not mince words" in the Dictionary.com Unabridged, v1.0.1, Lexico Publishing Group, 2006.