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in plain English

[in plain English] {adv. phr.}

Plainly; simply; in clear language.

/Stop healing around the bush and saying that John "prevaricates"; in plain English he is a liar./

Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms

by A. Makkai, M.T. Boatner, J.E. Gates © 2010

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