直截了当

直截了當
zhíjiéliǎodàng
idiom #14,061

Meanings

  1. 1 direct and plainspoken; blunt
  2. 2 straightforward; to the point

Examples

Tā shuōhuà hěn zhíjiéliǎodàng, cóng bù ràowānzi.
He speaks very directly and never beats around the bush.
Zhíjiéliǎodàng de gàosu wǒ, nǐ dàodǐ xiǎng yào shénme.
Tell me straight — what exactly do you want?

Tips

mistakes
The second character is (jié, to cut off), not (jiē, to connect). A common misspelling is 直接 — while 直接 (zhíjiē) is a word, the correct idiom uses .

Stroke Order

zhí
jié
le
dāng