打开天窗说亮话

Traditional form:

打開天窗說亮話

Pinyin (reading):

dǎkāitiānchuāngshuōliànghuà

Definitions:

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

Characters:

• 打 - to attack, to beat, to hit, to strike
• 开 - to open; to start, to initiate, to begin
• 天 - sky, heaven; god, celestial
• 窗 - window
• 说 - to speak, to say; to scold, to upbraid
• 亮 - bright, brilliant, radiant, light
• 话 - talk, speech; language, dialect

Traditional characters:

• 打 - to attack, to beat, to hit, to strike
• 開 - to open; to start, to initiate, to begin
• 天 - sky, heaven; god, celestial
• 窗 - window
• 說 - to speak, to say; to scold, to upbraid
• 亮 - bright, brilliant, radiant, light
• 話 - talk, speech; language, dialect