Usually means: Speak truthfully without sugarcoating facts.
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  1. tell it like it is: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. tell it like it is: Merriam-Webster
  3. tell it like it is: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. tell it like it is: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. tell it like it is: Wiktionary
  6. tell it like it is: Dictionary.com
  7. Tell It Like It Is (George Benson album), Tell It Like It Is (song), Tell It Like It Is: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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  1. Tell it like it is: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (tell it like it is)

verb:  (idiomatic) To speak frankly, to convey all and only the truth of a situation.

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