打开天窗说亮话

1. • not mince words (let's) not beat about the bush

     let's

Character by character

• 打(dǎ)a semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects to form compound verbs and verb-object phrases with a diverse range of meanings
• 开(kāi)open
• 天(tiān)day
• 窗(chuāng)window
• 说(shuō)speak
• 亮(liàng)bright
• 话(huà)dialect