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mince one's words (third-person singular simple present minces one's words, present participle mincing one's words, simple past and past participle minced one's words)
- Alternative form of mince words.
1826, , “The Receipt”, in Vivian Grey, volume I, London: Henry Colburn, , →OCLC, book II, page 100:My Lord, I must speak out. No thinking man can for a moment suppose, that your Lordship's heart is very warm in the cause of a party, which—for I will not mince my words—has betrayed you.
1922 October, T S Eliot, “Part II. A Game of Chess.”, in The Waste Land, 1st book edition, New York, N.Y.: Boni and Liveright, published December 1922, →OCLC, pages 22–23, lines 139–141:When Lil's husband got demobbed, I said— / I didn't mince my words, I said to her myself, / Hurry up please its time
, A J Cook, The Nine Days, London: or A. J. Cook by the Co-operative Printing Society , →OCLC, pages 18–19:Every one of my Committee felt proud of the determined stand of our President , who did not mince his words, but spoke straight and to the point.
2022 November 23, Joseph Los’e, “Dame Naida Glavish doesn’t mince words about Erebus Memorial”, in Shayne Currie, editor, The New Zealand Herald, Auckland: New Zealand Media and Entertainment, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-08-07:Dame Naida Glavish did not mince her words when she addressed the newly elected Waitematā Local Board yesterday about the location of the National Erebus Memorial. Before a packed meeting, the fiery Dame said she supports a National Erebus Memorial – but just not in proposed site of the Parnell Gardens, as it means destroying a Pohutukawa that has longer standing than the Treaty of Waitangi.