• aboveboard, candidly, downright, forthright, forthrightly, genuinely, liberally, outright, plainly, sincerely, straight, true, truly, truthfully
• to speak bluntly, to talk broadly
• to make a clean breast of sg
• to be quite frank, to put in bluntly, to put it bluntly
• to take one's hair down
• it lacks an honest ring
• to talk with sy heart to heart
• to make a frank confession of one's guilt
• I am going to be quite frank with you