frankly my dear
Honestly, my darling
Frankly my dear is a phrase preceding a blunt statement, signaling the speaker is about to deliver an honest opinion without softening it.
The expression gained cultural weight from the 1939 film *Gone with the Wind*, where Rhett Butler's Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn became one of cinema's most quoted lines.
Now often used playfully or ironically before dismissive remarks.
- Gone with the WindCivil War era epic
- goneNo longer present
- windAir current outdoors
- ScarlettIntense red color
- RhettMale given name
Butler · damn · movie quote · classic · Hollywood · quote · Southern · plantation · Civil War · belle · mustache · curtains · Tara · departure · Old South · dismissal · indifference · romantic
- catchphrasescatchphrase, why so serious, cowabunga, good grief, yabba dabba doo
- classic excerptsto be or not to be, call me Ishmael, once upon a time, nevermore, et tu Brute
frankly my dearbeating around the bush
Avoiding direct communication
evasively · if I may say so · obliquely · circuitously · hemming and hawing
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