[はらをわってはなす, harawowattehanasu] (exp, v5s) (See 腹を割って) to speak frankly; to speak unreservedly; to open up to each other; to talk candidly; to speak by laying everything on the table; to talk straight from the gut; to have a heart-to-heart talk [Add to Longdo]
Result from Foreign Dictionaries (2 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Candidly \Can"did*ly\, adv.
In a candid manner.
[1913 Webster]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
candidly
adv 1: (used as intensives reflecting the speaker's attitude) it
is sincerely the case that; "honestly, I don't believe
it"; "candidly, I think she doesn't have a conscience";
"frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn" [syn: {honestly},
{candidly}, {frankly}]