Meaning:
Moderate or weaken a statement
Examples:
- Let's not mince words, I don't care what you call it here.
- Let's not mince words, I don't care what you call it here.
- Let's not mince words.
- Let's not mince words.
- OK, let me not mince words. It was a fierce battle.
- In Agenda 2000, the Commission does not mince words in denouncing the behaviour of Slovakia.
- The text does not mince words.
- Now, I don't want you to feel like you're human shields, but... let's not mince words.
- Let's not mince words, just get him.
- Security Council reform is—I will not mince words—as far away today as it ever was.