Matter-of-fact.
Unvarnished truth, prosaic, unimaginative. Whyte Melville speaks of a “matter-of-fact swain.”
Unvarnished truth, prosaic, unimaginative. Whyte Melville speaks of a “matter-of-fact swain.”
Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.