speak one's mind

English

Verb

speak one 's mind

(idiomatic) To state one's thoughts or opinions honestly or frankly.
- 1845 October – 1846 June, Ellis Bell [pseudonym; Emily Brontë], Wuthering Heights: A Novel, volume IX, London: Thomas Cautley Newby, publisher, […], published December 1847, OCLC 156123328:
  :
  [H]e would speak his mind, and lecture her all the same as if she were a little girl.
- 1921 Arthur Scott Bailey, The Tale of Mrs. Ladybug, ch. 13:
  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," Time:
  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.

Translations

To state one's thoughts honestly or frankly

Finnish: puhua suunsa puhtaaksi, avautua (fi), avata suunsa
German: offen seine Meinung sagen
Icelandic: láta vaða um súðum

Italian: esprimere la propria opinione, parlare francamente
Japanese: 心のうちを明かす (kokoronouchi-wo-akasu)

See also

give somebody a piece of one's mind

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