utter
τὰ σῦκα σῦκα, τὴν σκάφην δὲ σκάφην ὀνομάζειν → call a spade a spade | speak the truth | speak straight from the shoulder | give it straight from the shoulder | give the straight goods | not to mince matters | not to mince words | not mince words | call things by their right names | call a spade a spade and a shovel a shovel | call a shovel a shovel | call a spade a spade, not a big spoon
English > Greek (Woodhouse)
adjective
extreme: P. and V. ἔσχατος, τελευταῖος.
very great: P. and V. μέγιστος, V. ὑπέρτατος.
entire: P. and V. παντελής; see entire.
verb transitive
P. and V. ἱέναι, ἀφιέναι, φθέγγεσθαι, V. μεθιέναι, χεῖν, θωΰσσειν, γηρύεσθαι, Ar. and V. χάσκειν, λάσκειν, ἐκχεῖν; see also speak, proclaim.
fling out: P. and V. ἐκβάλλειν, V. ῥίπτειν, ἐκρίπτειν, ἀπορρίπτειν.
utter by way of reproach: Ar. and V. ἐπιγλωσσᾶσθαι.
no one dared utter a syllable: P. ἐτόλμησεν οὐδεὶς… ῥῆξαι φωνήν (Dem. 126).
I thought I had suffered justly for having uttered a word: P. ἡγούμην δίκαια πεπονθέναι ὅτι ἔγρυξα (Plato, Euthyd. 301A).
not to utter a syllable: P. οὐδὲ φθέγγεσθαι.
disclose: P. and V. ἐκφέρω, ἐκφέρειν, μηνύειν; see disclose.