Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—M

Matter-of-fact

Unvarnished truth, prosaic, unimaginative. Whyte Melville speaks of a “matter-of-fact swain.”

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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