speak one's mind

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speak one's mind (third-person singular simple present speaks one's mind, present participle speaking one's mind, simple past spoke one's mind, past participle spoken one's mind)

1. (idiomatic) To state one's thoughts or opinions honestly or frankly.

   Synonym: speak one's conscience

   • 1847 December, Ellis Bell [pseudonym; Emily Brontë], Wuthering Heights: […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Thomas Cautley Newby, […], →OCLC:

     [H]e would speak his mind, and lecture her all the same as if she were a little girl.

   • 1921, Arthur Scott Bailey, chapter 13, in The Tale of Mrs. Ladybug:

     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”, in Time‎, archived from the original on 26 January 2012:

     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.

• give somebody a piece of one's mind