shoot from the hip
informalto speak in a very direct and honest way:
Jeff is a straight talker who always shoots from the hip.
to react quickly, without thinking carefully about something:
We're not going to shoot from the hip - we're going to think things through.
He often shoots from the hip without having all the facts.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Blunt and direct in speech & behaviour
- abrupt
- baldly
- blunt
- bluntly
- brusque
- brutal
- forward
- frank
- in a word idiom
- in the raw idiom
- man-to-man
- mince
- not mince (your) words idiom
- pull
- raw
- straight
- term
- terse
- unvarnished
- woman-to-woman
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Not showing careful thought