"Straight from the shoulder" nghĩa là gì?

Alnwick Castle - Dumbledore and Hagrid. Photo courtesy Dark Dwarf.

'Straight from the shoulder' nghĩa là thẳng thừng (phê bình...) (very direct, without attenuation or embellishment).

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A headmistress delivered a straight-from-the-shoulder speech to students at her school’s first prizegiving ceremony.

Let’s take a look at one knockout Olympic sport whose metaphors pervade our language: Straight from the shoulder, boxing metaphors pull no punches in our phrases. When fate has us on the ropes and hits us with a low blow in a knockdown, drag-out fight, we can take it on the chin, get knocked for a loop, go down for the count and throw in the towel or sponge. Or we can take the gloves off, throw our hat in the ring, roll with the punches, beat our opponent to the punch, come out swinging and be saved by the bell.

What may have derailed the historic Republican comeback was that year's second presidential debate, in San Francisco, when, in the midst of the Cold War, Ford implausibly and incorrectly asserted, "There is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe." Brent Scowcroft, Ford's national security adviser, and the White House and campaign leadership realized what a major gaffe the president had committed and knew a correction had to be quickly issued. But their task was complicated when, right after the debate, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, a man not renowned for his straight-from-the-shoulder directness, phoned Ford to say, according to those familiar with the conversation (including future Secretary of State Jim Baker, who was Ford's campaign chairman), "Mr. President, you did a wonderful job. Marvelous. Really terrific." It took several precious October days of effort on the part of Stu Spencer and others to persuade Ford to admit his misstatement and publicly acknowledge the presence of four Soviet divisions in Poland.

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