Idiom
point blank
Meaning
Directly; bluntly; without pretense or caution.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“He asked me point blank if I liked the gift.”
“When she realized he was lying, she looked him in the eye and asked point blank why he did it.”
“The journalist questioned the politician point blank about the missing funds, leaving him no room to avoid the truth.”
Examples
simple
“He asked me point blank if I liked the gift.”
contextual
“When she realized he was lying, she looked him in the eye and asked point blank why he did it.”
complex
“The journalist questioned the politician point blank about the missing funds, leaving him no room to avoid the truth.”
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